On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:11:17 David wrote: > I personally prefer 'aptitude dist-upgrade' > > - aptitude is better at finding upgrade solutions (important for > testing/sid, where the dependencies can change in ways that confuse > apt-get) > > - dist-upgrade, because 'upgrade' (or safe-upgrade in aptitude), > because sometimes packages need to be removed during an upgrade, which > 'upgrade' doesn't do, for safety reasons. Also, with apt-get (as > opposed to aptitude), no new packages are installed. > > The above could be what was holding back your KDE upgrade with apt-get. > > David. aptitude safe-upgrade does remove packages, but only if they're safe to remove (doesn't break another package).
And aptitude equivalent command to apt-get dist-upgrade is aptitude full- upgrade. Personally I always do an aptitude safe-upgrade and if packages are held back and I want them now, I'll try with aptitude -s full-upgrade to figure out what will happen and if I'm ok with that, do the full-upgrade. Diederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
