On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:07:06 -0400 Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> > On 27/06/17 05:39, Brian wrote: > >> It was. I am a creature of habit. I still reboot between upgrade > >> and dist-upgrade when I eventually upgrade a machine from one > >> distribution to another. > > When one uses synaptic there is reload (update) and upgrade, it does > not distinguish between dist and non-dist upgrade. I assume it is > dist-upgrade. So if synaptic has a new edition (which I assume its > dependencies may have been updated) it sounds wise to upgrade it > alone (w/ dependencies) and then restart it and run the upgrade. > Would these be correct assumptions? In most cases I use apt, and > synaptic when I am searching for a useful package, due to > descriptions, snapshots, etc. Look at Settings->Preferences General tab. From the Help: "Default Upgrade The default upgrade method marks upgrades of installed packages only. If the later version of a package depends on not installed packages or conflicts with an already installed package, the upgrade will not be marked. "Smart Upgrade (Dist-Upgrade) The smart upgrade method tries to resolve package conflicts intelligently. This includes installing additional required packages and preferring packages with higher priority. Smart upgrade is also known as dist-upgrade in the console tool apt-get. " Except that 'Smart Upgrade' is actually the default, not 'Default Upgrade'. -- Joe
