On Tuesday 05 April 2011 23:35:08 Charlie wrote: > Trying to satisfy a curiosity. > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but > one application file. > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for > several days and doesn't get upgraded when I do aptitude > "safe-upgrade" after "aptitude update" each time day after day. > > So I do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and the file is upgraded. > > Why does aptitude just ignore it again and again and apt-get upgrade it?
You are telling aptitude to run safe-upgrade. You are telling apt-get to upgrade. They are not the same thing. You may have had something installed that conflicted with the new package, and you told aptitude that it mustn't remove anything. I know very little about apt-get, but according to Aaron, who clearly does know about it, apt-get upgrade is equivalent to aptitude full-upgrade. So apt-get upgrade presumably removed something and was able to upgrade; aptitude didn't and couldn't. You just need to remember that, in effect, if you run aptitude safe-upgrade you are telling aptitude that it mustn't remove anything. This restriction may mean that it can't upgrade. HTH, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104062344.30401.lisi.re...@gmail.com
