Re: How did you update to stretch?
Am Montag, 26. Juni 2017, 15:46:00 CEST schrieb Hans:
I am responsing to myself. Just checked aptitude wiki. It is already well
documented (what I did not know, yet), so there is no further agreement
necessary.
On the other hand, it is good to see, that my experiences are made by other
people, too. So I can exclude my own dumbness. :)
All this does not inhibit one thing: making debian better and better (although
it might be already the best operating system on earth).
Best regards and happy hacking
Hans
> > Hans writes:
> Interesting! I did not notice apt, just used apt-get, apt-cache and so on.
> Just read the manual of apt. However, aptitude has also its worth, as for me
> it is faster to see, which dependencies are existent for the packages. I
> like ncurses-guis.
>
> Same is related to synaptic, which is good to fix dependency problems.
> However, as far as I know, synaptic is just a frontend for aptitude and
> apt.
>
> I do not want to blame any of these tools, as they might all have their
> goods and bads. But it would be nice, if we could agree to ONE tool, which
> is to be used for dist-upgrades.
>
> And this should be well documented! At the moment IMO there are too many
> tools and that makes it very confusing, doesn't it?
>
> Ok,. now we have about 2 years, to find the best way till the next "stable".
>
> Best
>
> Hans
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