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Re: how to handle the not upgraded package



On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, apt-get does not have a safe-upgrade command.
>
> Here I beg to differ.  'apt-get upgrade' is the safe-upgrade mechanism.
> Packages cannot be added or removed and dependency chains cannot be
> broken.

(AFAICT, the "safe-" is a misnomer...)

"aptitude safe-upgrade" allows the installation of a package in order
to satisfy a dependency whereas "apt-get upgrade" doesn't.


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