Hello,
I has been a long time since I apt-get update/upgrade my machine. I issued
the commands but got some errors. If somebody could please explain.
apt-get update works well. When I do apt-get upgrade I get the following
message:
Tomsk:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
aalib1 adduser apt binutils bsdgames bsdutils bug-buddy communicator
<snip> ... a lot of packages </snip>
xchat-common xchat-gnome xgalaga xscavenger xscreensaver
106 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 153 not
upgraded. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
dpkg: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1) but 2.2.2-4 is to be installed E:
Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
And when I apt-get dist-upgrade
Tomsk:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libguile6 libqt2.2 netkit-rpc opera perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base
perl-5.004-suid pnmtopng snmp snmpd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bonobo communicator-base-477 communicator-smotif-477 console-common
<snip>
following packages have been kept back communicator debian-policy pan
254 packages upgraded, 32 newly installed, 10 to remove and 3 not
upgraded.
Need to get 115MB/132MB of archives. After unpacking 34.3MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Which I abort since I don't really trust it, Perl is listed among the
packages to be removed. I have had bad experience with the perl package
being removed.
Also When is it appropriate to just apt-get upgrade and when to apt-get
dist-upgrade?
Thanks
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