Re: upgrade using aptitude
What I did was "sudo aptitude --no-gui", and type u, then U and g, and
choose among proposed conflict resolutions. I didn't know actually this is called safe-upgrade.
I will try directly run "sudo aptitude full-upgrade" in
terminal. I admitted that I wasn't really sure about the appropriate process of upgrading
by aptitude, and didn't fully understand of aptitude.
Thanks guys! :)
Heddle Weaver <weaver2world@gmail.com> writes:
> On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>
> Qi Qi:
> >
> > I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude
> > upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and
> > gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc.
>
> I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having
> trouble using full-upgrade which you didn't have if you used a
> safe-upgrade instead.
>
> <large snip>
>
> With aptitude, upgrading to a new distribution, which is essentially what you are doing when moving to a new version of unstable,
> 'aptitude full-upgrade' is appropriate after 'aptitude update'.
>
> Follow this with 'aptitude autoclean'.
>
> Any incremental updates after that, 'aptitude safe-upgrade' is appropriate.
>
> Doing it this way, no problems should be experienced.
> I certainly haven't had any.
>
> Aptitude may object to removing something because of dependency problems, but then install the new version of that package which will
> resolve those issues.
> But, from what you are saying, you haven't been issuing the correct commands and this is what has created the situation.
> By doing it now, you may very well still resolve the situation satisfactorily.
> I should also recommend installing the package: 'aptitude-doc-(insert appropriate language code here)' which you will be able to find
> through the aptitude interface and read it!
>
> I should also recommend installing another package called 'deborphan' which will help to clean up the mess.
>
> With unstable, it would be smart thinking to also install 'apt-listbugs', and reading the messages it outputs at the end of aptitude
> update before you install anything.
> Regards,
>
> Weaver.
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