Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade
OK, Y'all. Confusin', confusin', confusin.....
Been safely running Wheezy on my home desktop and lovin' it even w. the
occasional slight breaks, etc. But a while ago, I upgraded and lost my
admin and system submenus under the System menu at the gnome top panel.
Really not been a big pain and thought I might get them back but so far
nothing happened. Sooooo, I goggled the prob' and found that my
upgrade changed some stuff in gnome to the gnome 3(like the help files
and removed the aformentioned submenus) and left the rest intact. So
the recommendation to someone at the forum I was reading was to do an
apt-get dist-upgrade and the person did so and she got her submenus back
but lost her panels. I know that she went from Gnome 2.3.x to Gnome 3
w. the upgrade and that is what I need to do too but when I did an
apt-get update to see what all would be changed, I was astounded to see
that a whole lot of stuff would be removed, added and more upgraded.
I'm sitting here thinking that I keep my system up to date using
aptitude daily w. update and then safe-upgrade and while I knew there
were some differences between aptitude and apt-get, I had no idea there
would be this much difference.
Quetjun'.... Is it safe to do an apt-get dist-upgrade? I mean it says
it will add over a Gig of new files and stuff while removing a number of
files. I know that when I do an aptitude safe-upgraade I always get
recommended files at the end of the statement and assume that those
recommended files are a big part of this upgrade.
Can anyone shed some light on this and let me know I'm most likely NOT
going to brick my system by doing this major apt-get dist-upgrade?
TIA and so appreciate your help.
Whit
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