On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 3:12 PM Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > > > One of the big differences between apt-get and aptitude is the resolver > > which is much more sophisticated (which doesn't necessarily mean always > > "better) in aptitude. > > Indeed, `aptitude` was not able to find a way to upgrade one of my > `stable` machines, so I ran `apt` instead, which punted on a few > packages but did upgrade a large proportion. Once that part was done, > `aptitude` was able to find the final path :-)
Which aptitude command did you use? aptitude safe-upgrade can usually find solutions where others fail. Especially for those annoying "The following packages have been kept back..." problems. Jeff
