Thanks for the prompt reply!
The Wanderer wrote:
On 2017-08-02 at 11:44, Christoph Groth wrote:
> I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from
> "oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt
> upgrade' as well as 'apt-get upgrade' want to install the
> package
> 'pulsaudio' which I've been avoiding successfully so far.
That's a little weird. According to the apt-get man page,
'upgrade' will
never install a package which is not already installed.
Sorry, I was a bit imprecise. The three tools (apt-get, aptitude
& apt) behave in slightly different ways. I should have simply
asked whether there is any way (other than aptitude's option) to
know why something is about to be installed either by "upgrade" or
"dist-upgrade"
The 'upgrade' command for apt behaves differently; that one will
install
new packages if needed, but will never remove an existing
package.
Are you certain that both commands produce the same
install-new-package
result?
> I could of course uninstall pulseaudio after the upgrade, but
> I
> wonder whether a more elegant solution does not exist.
Try 'apt-get upgrade pulseaudio-'; the trailing hyphen should
tell
apt-get to remove the package, which in this case means not
installing
it. I more usually use this sort of thing with dist-upgrade, but
AFAIK
it should work for upgrade as well.
Thanks, this works (with a small modification). If I execute
'apt-get full-upgrade pulseaudio-' APT suddenly wants to install
pulsaudio:i386 along with dozens of other i386 packages. (I'm
aware of multiarch and use it, but didn't know that packages from
one arch can substitute others.) Executing 'apt-get full-upgrade
pulseaudio- pulseaudio:i386-' does the trick.
