On Du, 12 feb 12, 20:14:32, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Popescu > <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), > > which one do you use? > > aptitude. AFAIR, it was the recommended one for Debian. (A while back, > I remember that Debian recommended aptitude and Ubuntu wanted apt. The Release Notes recommended one or the other depending on upgrade testing. Also apt-get was missing a feature (autoremove) and had a different default (no Recommends). > > Please copy-paste full commands and outputs, otherwise we can only > > guess. Also output of 'apt-cache policy' would be very useful > > A sample of an attempted upgrade on my wife's sid machine is available > at http://paste.debian.net/156058/. Note that the following unmet I would suggest you try a safe-upgrade first (doesn't remove packages, but may install new ones if needed) and then try a 'full-upgrade for what is left (if still necessary). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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