Hi Kete and thanks in advance for clarification. So its not true "apt-get" is not recommended for "squeeze" machines?
Thanks again. Joseph. Enviado desde mi dispositivo movil BlackBerry® de Digitel. -----Original Message----- From: Kete <k...@suddenlink.net> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 21:31:59 To: <xt4...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: aptitude upgrade vs. apt-get upgrade Hi José, You can find a reference at http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch- pkgtools.en.html#s-aptitude "aptitude is the preferred program for daily package management from console." This FAQ is also available as the package debian-faq which installs in /usr/share/doc like lots of other helpful documentation. Regards, Kete On Saturday April 2, 2011 8:24:24 pm José Gregorio Díaz Unda wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Why is that? > > Where can we find source info about this recomendation? > > Joseph. > > > Enviado desde mi dispositivo movil BlackBerry® de Digitel. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Riku Valli <riku.va...@vallit.fi> > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:12:19 > To: <debian-secur...@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: aptitude upgrade vs. apt-get upgrade > > On 03/31/2011 04:23 PM, Benedikt Hallinger wrote: > > Hi, > > i noticed that too and switched back to apt-get for that reason. > > Hi > > apt-get is now preferred method over aptitude at Squeeze. However at > Lenny aptitude is preferred over apt-get. > > You should use apt-get with Squeeze and aptitude with Lenny. > > Regards, Riku > > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:49:19 +0200, Thomas Hungenberg > > > > <th+lists-deb...@demonium.de> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> since upgrading from lenny to squeeze, I've noticed several times that > >> aptitude > >> does not install all available security updates whereas apt-get does. > >> > >> Currently, this looks like: > >> > >> # aptitude -s upgrade > >> > >> The following packages will be upgraded: > >> bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 > >> > >> libisccfg62 liblwres60 > >> 8 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > >> > >> # apt-get -s upgrade > >> Reading package lists... Done > >> Building dependency tree > >> Reading state information... Done > >> > >> The following packages will be upgraded: > >> bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 > >> > >> libisccfg62 liblwres60 > >> tex-common > >> 9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > >> > >> What's the reason for this? > >> > >> - Thomas
