On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:39:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote: > Stephen wrote:
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> > Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd comment on
> > the line above :
> >
> > I run aptitude from the command line ; 'aptitude dist-upgrade' works fine
> > for me. It seems many people aren't aware that aptitude can run like
> > apt-get, using a command line interface.
>
> Except that I want to _see_ what it will do before running the
> dist-upgrade, like running aptitude interactively and hitting "U",
> except that it is a dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade.
That's done easily enough via the command line with the '-s' switch.
Believe me, all functionality is available from the command line.
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