Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Pierre Frenkiel:
> 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?
Sven Hartge said on debian-user-german that aptitude is currently having
issues with multiarch. Maybe that has hit you somehow or maybe not I don´t
know.
I´d suggest apt-get for the time being.
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