On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:33:03PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > Jeff Soules wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>aptitude is the preferred package manager since sarge. > >> > > > >Preferred by whom, for what reason?
Preferred by whoever authorized the release notes. Good enough for me. > > I've always been much happier > >with apt-get when I want precision, aptitude when I want to browse. > >When I upgraded from etch to lenny, apt-get gave me useful feedback > >that helped me fix things; aptitude wanted to mark my entire system > >for purge, for no specified reason... If you use the curses interface, it tells you exactly why it wants to do what for every package. > I just moved from sarge to lenny like this: > - changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to lenny > - did an apt-get update > - after that a apt-get dist-upgrade. > All goes well, no 1 problem. > > Remarks: if you have kdm installed, on the dist-upgrade of kdm, kdm is > launched and you'd log out of them to continue the dist-upgrade ! Another reason not to do an upgrade from within X. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
