Re: megalomanic aptitude

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote:
> Dear fellow Debian users,
> 
> For years, I've been using apt-get happily.  Now I wanted to switch to
> aptitude because it is supposed to resolve conflicts better but I find
> myself unable to tame it.  Any hints are highly appreciated.
> 
> My system is in a state which apt-get finds acceptable:
> 
> ################################################################
> argo:~# apt-get install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> ################################################################

Have you done "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" recently?

If you have not, your system is not updated properly.

aptitude find them for you.

Osamu