Re: Lenny?

[Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:35:42 Charlie wrote:
>> After doing # apt-get update
>> Then get this: # apt-get upgrade
>> Then do this: # apt-get dselect-upgrade
>> What am I missing?
>
> Try 'aptitude dist-upgrade'.  Aptitude is the preferred package manager since
> at least Etch.

Hi,

I have used this instructions a lot of time ago, with no problems,
these instructions I have written afte the succesful upgrade of my PC

http://www.go2linux.org/upgrading-debian

hope it helps.
regards,


>
> However, you should see the Lenny release notes for the proper way to upgrade.
> In general, you should update 'dpkg', 'apt', and 'aptitude' to their Lenny
> versions before updating everything.
>
> If, for some reason, aptitude also wants to remove some packages, we can
> troubleshoot better from there.  If we need to troubleshoot, the output of
> 'apt-cache policy', 'aptitude install', 'aptitude upgrade', and 'aptitude
> dist-upgrade' would probably be the best start.
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