Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com>]

On 2 July 2015 at 20:29, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday 02 July 2015 18:37:21 Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I had to do aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree to get it installed. It
> is not automatic.

No, it is not.  Upgrade doesn't know what new software you want to install!!!
I should read up on aptitude.

Lisi

​I am used to installing packages from the non-free repositories that do non essential things independently of apt-get update and aptitude safe-upgrade etc.

But, I thought that if  X windows can't work without a given package, even if it is a non-free one, then once the sources.list file has the non-free moniker present it then if you ran apt-get update and then aptitude safe-upgrade it would automatically fetch it and install it- because to me at any rate, X windows is an important part of the OS from a practical viewpoint.

But that was incorrect.

Regards

MF