Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:45:51PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:10:07 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> 
> > Camaleón:
> 
> (...)
> 
> >> Did you first update the packages database?
> >> 
> >> apt-get update
> >> aptitude update
> > 
> > apt-get and aptitude both use the same package database. Running the
> > 'udpate' for both of them is not required.
> 
> I just run "apt-get upgrade" and said there was nothing to do while 
> running "aptitude upgrade" wanted to do very (I mean *very*) weird 
> things, such as removing a bunch of packages. After updating aptitude 
> database all went smooth...

And you had already done an "apt-get update" before this happened?

Remember, Aptitude's "resolver system" is different to apt-get's

P.S. I don't use aptitude but use apt-get whereas Jochen AFAIR use
aptitude.

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