On 10 April 2014 16:07, Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently:
root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
python-gtksourceview2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages have been kept back:
eom-common mate-panel mate-panel-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
base-passwd cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-core-drivers
cups-daemon
cups-ppdc cups-server-common dnsmasq-base geoip-database libcups2
libcupscgi1
libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 man-db pluma pluma-common ruby
20 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,645 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,731 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Apt-get then did what it said it would upgrading everything except
mate-panel, mate-panel-commong and eom
Then I ran synaptic...and it removed an old version of mate-panel-applets
and replaced it with the newer version. It then upgraded
mate-panel and mate-panel-common.
Why was synaptic able to figure out what was needed (the newer version of
mate-panel-applets) and neither apt-get nor aptitude could figure it
out ?
This is the second time recently that synaptic was able to accomplish what
apt-get and aptitude couldn't.
--
When the rich get richer they get more powerful
and that puts them in the position to lobby for policies
to make them even richer.
- former Clinton advisor Larry Summers
Synaptic, I think, defaults to Smart Upgrade, the equivalent is
apt-get dist-upgrade.
Man apt-get for the full details