Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 10/04/14 12:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2014 16:17:21 Robin wrote:
> > Synaptic, I think, defaults to Smart Upgrade, the equivalent is
> > apt-get  dist-upgrade.
> > Man apt-get for the full details
>
> You probably ran
> # aptitude upgrade
> too.  That doesn't remove anything.
> # aptitude full-upgrade
> would have accomplished what you wanted.
>
> Lisi

  no, aptitude  full-upgrade wanted to remove half of Mate.The sticking 
point was the new applets file which only synaptic offered to upgrade.



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