On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 01:39:05PM +0200, Shai Berger wrote: > Sharing my little "worry story" -- I used "apt upgrade" on testing (I > never use full-upgrade) and it installed many packages, but apparently > left many missing.
And it also didnt remove many packages that needed removing for an orderly upgrade. That's how apt upgrade works. It is therefore my recommendation to use apt upgrade to to the part of the upgrade that is unlikely to breatk things, but then follow with apt full-upgrade to do actual transitions. Since, in testing and unstable, apt full-upgrade at the wrong time might uninstall half of your system, you need to look at that apt full-upgrade suggests doing before acknowledging the action. A preceding apt upgrade helps to keep apt full-upgrade's suggestions "short" and more easily to digest. During my upgrades to Plasma 6, I ended up twice with an active screenlocker that wouldn't unlock, and therfore had to kill the Plasma session and the apt run in it, followed by the usual clean up of dpkg --configure --all, apt -f install and apt upgrade. I therefore recommend this upgrade in an ssh session from another machine, inside screen, from the console or somehow else. It would be nice if we could sort that out before the release so that people going the non-recommended but common way of just running the upgrade in Konsole don't end up with having to recover. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
