Re: cannot install all updates

Rich Healey wrote:

Will give you the info you're looking for, basically "upgrade" will do
minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade
completely, potentially breaking everything.


I'm using debian testing for 5 years now, and every week I run 'aptitude
update && aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude clean'.
The important thing is the full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade for the older
users ;-) ), which never, BUT NEVER, broke anything on my system!

IN DEBIAN I TRUST.

G.

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