Re: upgrade using aptitude

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Qi Qi:
> >  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.
> >
> > (snip)
> >  
> 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.  
This is something different. You were running aptitude in the 
interactive mode, you can also use it like apt-get, with command line 
arguments
 - aptitude update
 - aptitude safe-upgrade
 - aptitude install packagename
 - etc. etc. etc. (RTFM!)

Sjoerd
PS. Please, trim and bottom post

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