David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): >> >> > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, >> > etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find >> > this unusual. Did a mail list archive search for this, but didn't find >> > anything specific. Or did I miss the solution? >> >> > My Test Setup: >> >> > Stretch Stable 64-bit from net-install disk in Virtualbox 5.1 on a >> > Wheezy host. Basic terminal install (no GUI), converted to sysvinit >> > (did not do anything to systemd files. Kept as dependencies) and then >> > added xorg, openbox window manager, etc. >> >> > Thanks for any feedback. >> >> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? > > I did. Where does it say that?
The closest thing to that statement I've encountered is in the Debian Administrator's Handbook, "apt is a second command-line based front end provided by APT which overcomes some design mistakes of apt-get." It doesn't quite say it's preferred, but it does say why the author of the handbook thinks it's superior. https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-get.html section 6.2 But this whole discussion is a complete red herring. Whatever the OP's actual issue, the probability that it has anything to do with apt vs. apt-get is so low that pretty much everything else should be considered first. (not that it matters, but personally I prefer aptitude)
