On 10 April 2014 16:07, Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: > > > root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: > python-gtksourceview2 > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. > The following packages have been kept back: > eom-common mate-panel mate-panel-common > The following packages will be upgraded: > base-passwd cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-core-drivers > cups-daemon > cups-ppdc cups-server-common dnsmasq-base geoip-database libcups2 > libcupscgi1 > libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 man-db pluma pluma-common ruby > 20 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > Need to get 7,645 kB of archives. > After this operation, 4,731 kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > Apt-get then did what it said it would upgrading everything except > mate-panel, mate-panel-commong and eom > > Then I ran synaptic...and it removed an old version of mate-panel-applets > and replaced it with the newer version. It then upgraded > mate-panel and mate-panel-common. > > Why was synaptic able to figure out what was needed (the newer version of > mate-panel-applets) and neither apt-get nor aptitude could figure it > out ? > > This is the second time recently that synaptic was able to accomplish what > apt-get and aptitude couldn't. > > > > -- > When the rich get richer they get more powerful > and that puts them in the position to lobby for policies > to make them even richer. > - former Clinton advisor Larry Summers > >
Synaptic, I think, defaults to Smart Upgrade, the equivalent is apt-get dist-upgrade. Man apt-get for the full details -- rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caozwb-rvtu-okkysnrwniaxst5y+7fh+cq8onjy3jptgz+s...@mail.gmail.com
