Re: apt-get vs. aptitude
On Sunday 13 October 2013 18:44:51 Frank McCormick wrote:
> Aptitude has been refusing to do a full upgrade on my Jessie
> system for the past two weeks because it said it needed
> xorg-video-abi-12 but it said it is not installable. Well, not so.
> I tried running Synaptic this morning and it had no problem finding
> what it needed and installing it. I still don't understand what the
> difference was but Synaptic did what aptitude said it couldn't do.
> What could be the difference ? Does Synaptic not use the same repo
> source files aptitude uses?
All you had to do in aptitude was install it.
# aptitude install xorg-video-abi-12
If nothing else that would tell you what the problem was and give you
a chance to solve it. Did you explore why it didn't want to install
it automatically?
One of the reasons I love open source is that it gives me choice. I
don't like Synaptic. Fine, I don't have to use Synaptic. You don't
like Aptitude. Fine, you don't have to use Aptitude.
Lisi
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