Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:50:43 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
>
Thank you, I will try that next time and see what comes up.
Charlie
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