Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote:
tom arnall wrote:
i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:

kloro@debian:~$ uname -r
2.6.16.4

so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31
not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting:

kloro@debian:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

It was doomed from the start. apt-get does not have the intelligence, as
do the apt front ends, essential for all but the most trivial upgrades. Of
those I can only vouch for personal favorite, dselect.


judging from the menu for dselect, there does not seem to be a way to do a
dist-upgrade, only install like with 'apt-get install'.



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