On Friday 01 July 2016 16:06:30 Ralph Katz wrote: > On 07/01/2016 10:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > ... > > > Aptitude has served me well, reliably and faithfully for 14 years. I was > > not rushing to blame it in this case. > > > > But until I do find out what went wrong, I shall be a little nervous of > > aptitude. :-( > > ... > > Sorry to read of your upgrade troubles. When I mentioned my easy > upgrade of Dell Inspiron 9100, I assumed you, too, would also follow the > specific instructions in the release notes.
I did. This isn't the Dell Inspiron 2300 - I was doing two machines. And the problem didn't actually arise during the upgrade, which appeared to have gone super-smoothly. > From where you are now, others on this list are way better suited than I > to help. Good luck! Thanks!! I seem to need it. Lisi > > Ralph > > For the archives: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.h >tml#upgradingpackages > > > 4.4. Upgrading packages > > > > The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian releases is to use > > the package management tool apt-get. In previous releases, aptitude was > > recommended for this purpose, but recent versions of apt-get provide > > equivalent functionality and also have shown to more consistently give > > the desired upgrade results. > > > > The upgrade process for some previous releases recommended the use of > > aptitude for the upgrade. This tool is not recommended for upgrades from > > wheezy to jessie. > > and: > > 4.4.4. Minimal system upgrade > > > > In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below) directly might > > remove large numbers of packages that you will want to keep. We therefore > > recommend a two-part upgrade process: first a minimal upgrade to overcome > > these conflicts, then a full upgrade as described in Section 4.4.5, > > “Upgrading the system”.
