Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

From: Kevin B. McCarty (kmccarty_at_Princeton.EDU)
Date: 06/16/05

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    Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:

    > Don't use dselect for distribution upgrades. Use apt-get directly, e.g.
    >
    > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

    As others have pointed out already, this isn't recommended by the
    release notes either. The suggested upgrade path is to use the version
    of aptitude from Sarge:

    http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html

    as aptitude is smarter about dependencies than apt-get. (It also has
    the nice feature of remembering which packages were installed only in
    order to fulfill dependencies.)

    regards, 

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