On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:37:34PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:37:52PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:21:25PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:50:24PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:13:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:36:39PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > > > [..] > > > > > > > > I did the etch upgrade following the sarge install using apt-get and > > > then installed half a dozen apps, Xorg, and the 2.6.8 and 2.6.17 > > > kernels using aptitude. > > > > > > Sounds like I'll have to start over and stick to one or the other. > > > > No, just start using aptitude, stop using apt-get, and go manually > > through the list of packages from within aptitude, determine if they're > > ones you want, they depend on packages installed, or they're cruft. > > The big difference with aptitude is that it remembers which packages you > explicitly requested. And it cleans up packages that are no longer > needed bases on this knowledge. So if you installed something without > aptitude it may decide that it's not needed any more and decide to > delete it. Therefore, use apritude interactively and *always* look > through the packages it proposes to delete. If you want one of them, > it's very easy to stop the deletion -- just explicitly requset it! > > Otherwise, aptitude uses the same underlying package management tools as > apt-get.
Guess I'll have to learn that aptitude full-screen interface. root's bash history tells me that this is what I did after a sarge netinst where I manually requested that no packages be installed on top of the base system: 1. apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade 2. edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to testing 4. apt-get dist-upgrade 5. aptitude install screen less xserver-xorg xfonts-base wmaker conky xterm elinks cdrecord vim .. Is there a risk that at some point aptitude will mess up what I did in steps 2 and 4 .. ?? Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
