Re: upgrade using aptitude

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Qi Qi:

 On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote:

Qi Qi:
>
> I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude
> upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and
> gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc.

trouble using full-upgrade which you didn't have if you used a
safe-upgrade instead.

<large snip>

With aptitude, upgrading to a new distribution, which is essentially what you 
are doing when moving to a new version of unstable,
'aptitude full-upgrade' is appropriate after 'aptitude update'.

Follow this with 'aptitude autoclean'.

Any incremental updates after that, 'aptitude safe-upgrade' is appropriate.

(snip)

I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having

What I did was "sudo aptitude --no-gui", and type u, then U and g, and

I will try directly run "sudo aptitude full-upgrade" in
terminal. I admitted that I wasn't really sure about the appropriate process of 
upgrading

choose among proposed conflict resolutions. I didn't know actually this is called safe-upgrade. by aptitude, and didn't fully understand of aptitude.

This is something different. You were running aptitude in the interactive mode, you can also use it like apt-get, with command line arguments

 - aptitude update
 - aptitude safe-upgrade
 - aptitude install packagename
 - etc. etc. etc. (RTFM!)

Sjoerd
PS. Please, trim and bottom post

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