Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude
On Wednesday 21 March 2012 10:01:38 Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several places
> that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried with it.
> I started with only 1 line in sources.list:
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
> and tried several times "aptitude safe-upgrade"
> Each time, aptitude stayed indefinitely on "resolving dependencies" and did
> nothing else.
> I then issued: "apt-get dist-upgrade", and all worked perfectly, in less
> than 30 minutes.
>
> My question: is it better to also revert to apt-get for package management,
> or is the problem specific to the upgrade to a new release?
aptitude full-upgrade is the equivalent of apt-get dist-upgrade. aptitude
safe-upgrade has different checks.
Lisi
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