On 07/01/2016 10:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: ... > Aptitude has served me well, reliably and faithfully for 14 years. I was not > rushing to blame it in this case. > > But until I do find out what went wrong, I shall be a little nervous of > aptitude. :-( ... Sorry to read of your upgrade troubles. When I mentioned my easy upgrade of Dell Inspiron 9100, I assumed you, too, would also follow the specific instructions in the release notes. From where you are now, others on this list are way better suited than I to help. Good luck! Ralph For the archives: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgradingpackages > 4.4. Upgrading packages > > The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian releases is to use the package management tool apt-get. In previous releases, aptitude was recommended for this purpose, but recent versions of apt-get provide equivalent functionality and also have shown to more consistently give the desired upgrade results. > The upgrade process for some previous releases recommended the use of aptitude for the upgrade. This tool is not recommended for upgrades from wheezy to jessie. and: > 4.4.4. Minimal system upgrade > > In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below) directly might remove large numbers of packages that you will want to keep. We therefore recommend a two-part upgrade process: first a minimal upgrade to overcome these conflicts, then a full upgrade as described in Section 4.4.5, “Upgrading the system”.
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