Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:17:44 +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> To answer most questions asked:
(...)
Would have been better to reply to every message separately...
> 3)
> The last time I ran a full-upgrade was when I upgraded from Lenny. I
> think this system started out as an Etch system years ago. I'd like to
> think the aptitude full-upgrade (or apt-get dist-upgrade) is only to be
> used when doing major upgrades. But.... ~# aptitude full-upgrade
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> mysql-common
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 69.6 kB of archives. After unpacking 57.3 kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]n
So "full-upgrade" worked. Curious.
> 5)
> Aptitude upgrade with the -v (or -vv or -vvv) switch gives not much more
> info, just: Current status: 0 broken [+0], 1 update [+0], 16431 new
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> [+0].
There is "one" update available. Next time you can open aptitude and
manually browse the available package to gather more information on why
is not going to be updated.
> So it seems the update is present on my system and ready to be
> installed, just not by a normal aptitude upgrade. It is either a normal
> apt-get upgrade or an aptitude full-upgrade. But why.....?
>
> I will just do an apt-get upgrade now.
There must be a good reason (and I bet this deserves a full reading¹),
but I never use aptitude unless apt-get goes crazy and wants to do weird
things :-)
¹http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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