Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

[Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com>]

From: ad44@cityscape.co.uk

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 18:21:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> Fungi4All composed on 2017-07-19 17:39 (UTC-0400):

> > > 27 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

> > Need to get 68.5 MB of archives.> After this operation, 242 MB of additional disk space will be used.

> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

> > Abort.

>

> > $ sudo apt-get upgrade

> ...

> > 25 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

> > Need to get 21.1 MB of archives.

> > After this operation, 145 kB of additional disk space will be used.

> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

> > Abort.

>

> Prezactly! ;-)

The different results with apt upgrade as opposed to apt-get upgrade

are due to apt installing new packages, something which apt-get will

not do. Use apt-get dist-upgrade for that. The end result is the same.

I took your advise and used apt-get only across 4 Debian editions.

It did not stop systemd from being installed all on its own.  

I started with 7, pretty minimal sysV and runit, slim, openbox, midori,

2-3 lxde pieces to save time and hustle, tried to go to 8.  Every step

systemd was installing I would take it off before I would restart.  I couldn't

even get the kernel to install properly.  I would restore the initial 7 and

tried to go to 9.  Same ol, same ol.  Testing ....  I gave up and didn't even

try to go straight to sid :)

I thought maybe I can build a devuan.  I would lose net-manager all the 

time and with wifi it became the impossible task to achieve.

I don't remember how many times I had to remove firefox, deluge, 

and some other commercial "free" software.

So much for the apt-get not installing shit on its own.

But if it was that easy it wouldn't have taken Devuan so long to get it

done.