On Ma, 20 oct 20, 10:44:17, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, October 20, 2020 05:10:33 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 19 oct 20, 20:21:45, The Wanderer wrote: > > > To install that package and let the upgrade go forward, you have a few > > > options. The simplest, and the one I go with myself, would be to run > > > > > > $ apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > I disagree, the simplest and arguably slightly safer is > > > > apt upgrade > > I agree, for an additional reason -- iiuc, if you are using an older version > of Debian, dist-upgrade will attempt to upgrade to the current version, which > could cause problems. Actually you will just end up with a partially upgraded system, which may be worse. Your best course of action at that point is likely to follow-up with dist-upgrade to switch completely to the next release. This two-step distribution upgrade is actually a documented work around for some issues on upgrades to the next release. https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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