Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:35:08 +1000, Charlie wrote:

> Trying to satisfy a curiosity.
> 
> I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but
> one application file.
> 
> Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for several
> days and doesn't get upgraded when I do aptitude "safe-upgrade" after
> "aptitude update" each time day after day.
> 
> So I do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and the file is upgraded.
> 
> Why does aptitude just ignore it again and again and apt-get upgrade it?

(...)

Hum... maybe "aptitude why-not <package>" would have provided additional 
information. Or looking at aptitude logs or increasing aptitude log 
level... :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón