On Lu, 09 iun 14, 08:35:44, Dalios wrote:
# apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean && apt-get autoremove && apt-get update
&& apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
A few comments:
- autoclean after clean is redundant
- I don't think clearing your cache *before* the upgrade is such a good
idea especially on testing (and really dangerous on sid). When (not
"if") something goes wrong you can still downgrade packages using
dpkg, even if you network is down, system is unbootable, etc.
Especially for testing and unstable (but even on stable it can't hurt) I
would recommend the following [use the tool you feel more comfortable
with, I'll use the new 'apt' command because it's shorter ;) ]:
apt update && apt upgrade && apt dist-upgrade
(be careful about the last one, because it is allowed to remove
packages)
checkrestart
service <daemon> restart
(restart also all other programs that don't have an init script)
checkrestart is in package debian-goodies. Also make sure you reboot if
the kernel was upgraded (you did have a look at the package lists, did
you?). If everything seems to work fine:
apt-get autoremove # apt doesn't do this yet
apt-get autoclean
For extra safety set APT::Clean-Installed to "no", because otherwise apt
will remove all packages that are not downloadable any more. While this
happens all the time in testing/sid as package versions are superseded
it will also happen if your last 'update' failed for some reason (e.g.
network was down).
Kind regards,
Andrei