Jeff Soules wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:aptitude is the preferred package manager since sarge.Preferred by whom, for what reason? I've always been much happier with apt-get when I want precision, aptitude when I want to browse. When I upgraded from etch to lenny, apt-get gave me useful feedback that helped me fix things; aptitude wanted to mark my entire system for purge, for no specified reason...
I just moved from sarge to lenny like this: - changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to lenny - did an apt-get update - after that a apt-get dist-upgrade. All goes well, no 1 problem.Remarks: if you have kdm installed, on the dist-upgrade of kdm, kdm is launched and you'd log out of them to continue the dist-upgrade !