On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > Putting back on list, having erroneously taken it off. Sorry Mark. :-( > > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 17:59:58 Mark Panen wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 14:41:36 Mark Panen wrote: >> >> I don't understand why "aptitude update" shows 560 new updates but >> >> "aptitude safe-upgrade" shows none, yet "apt-get install" works fine, >> >> i can install packages but not update. >> > >> > I think that you may be confusing new packages with available updates. >> > New packages are available and you can install them, but they are not >> > yet installed. >> > >> > I have just run aptitude update with the following result: >> > >> > <quote> >> > Current status: 4 updates (+3), 854 new (+4) >> > </quote> >> > >> > In this situation I have only 4 new updates that would be (and were) >> > installed by aptitude full-upgrade. The 854 are as it says new - i.e. >> > new packages. They will be installed only if I do aptitude install >> > <package>. >> > >> > You can update, and indeed are updating. You can, as you say, install >> > packages. You can't upgrade because you have no pending updates with >> > which to upgrade, you are already fully upgraded. >> > >> > You are getting into that confusion that comes from switching from yum to >> > apt! >> > >> > Lisi >> >> Can't be, there must be tons of updates since 6.0.0 has been released. > > I understood you to say that you had installed the updates from 6.0.1a?? > Sorry if I misunderstood. > > It is possible that the software you have installed (which I understood you to > say was minimal) has not been updated since 6.0.1a. > > I got confused because you referred to "new updates". Either they were new > packages, or they were updates - they cannot have been both. It really does > seem possible that they were new packages and the packages you had chosen, > which I understood you to say were minimal, had not been updated. It is > indeed quite a long time since 6.0.1a, but the hypothesis at least fits the > known facts. This is Squeeze, which is stable. I.e. it won't have many > updates. > > 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/201106082246.14266.lisi.re...@gmail.com > >
I have done a fresh install of 6.0.0 KDE amd64, i added the 6.0.1a DVD but synaptic nor aptitude will not update, how do i update from the 6.0.1 a DVD? -- 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/banlktimnppqcdrdyyd-ospejj8lmblb...@mail.gmail.com
