Re: Synaptic options will not tick

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

Putting back on list, having erroneously taken it off.  Sorry Mark. :-(

On Wednesday 08 June 2011 17:59:58 Mark Panen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 14:41:36 Mark Panen wrote:
> >> I don't understand why "aptitude update" shows 560 new updates but
> >> "aptitude safe-upgrade" shows none,  yet "apt-get install" works fine,
> >> i can install packages but not update.
> >
> > I think that you may be confusing new packages with available updates.
> >  New packages are available and you can install them, but they are not
> > yet installed.
> >
> > I have just run aptitude update with the following result:
> >
> > <quote>
> > Current status: 4 updates (+3), 854 new (+4)
> > </quote>
> >
> > In this situation I have only 4 new updates that would be (and were)
> > installed by aptitude full-upgrade.  The 854 are as it says new - i.e.
> > new packages. They will be installed only if I do aptitude install
> > <package>.
> >
> > You can update, and indeed are updating.  You can, as you say, install
> > packages.  You can't upgrade because you have no pending updates with
> > which to upgrade, you are already fully upgraded.
> >
> > You are getting into that confusion that comes from switching from yum to
> > apt!
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Can't be, there must be tons of updates since 6.0.0 has been released.

I understood you to say that you had installed the updates from 6.0.1a??  
Sorry if I misunderstood.

It is possible that the software you have installed (which I understood you to 
say was minimal) has not been updated since 6.0.1a.

I got confused because you referred to "new updates".  Either they were new 
packages, or they were updates - they cannot have been both.  It really does 
seem possible that they were new packages and the packages you had chosen, 
which I understood you to say were minimal, had not been updated.  It is 
indeed quite a long time since 6.0.1a, but the hypothesis at least fits the 
known facts.  This is Squeeze, which is stable.  I.e. it won't have many 
updates.

Lisi