Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade
- From: Whit Hansell <skipper44@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:59:50 -0500
Tom, thank you for the info. I agree w. sending in bug reports. It's just that there is such a learning curve w.Gnome 3 and KDE4 which I had tried before I changed over to Gnome 2.30.x previously. I have gone ahead and done the full apt-get dist-upgrade and played w. the new Gnome and found that I could do a ""Classic" so am at that point. Right now. Found the basic Gnome, the new one, is very slow and have seen that that is a problem w. it. But it seems that the "classic" setup is closer to the older one so will be going back and forth between them so I can learn the new one while hopefully<G> geting things done while using "classic".
Again, Tom, thanks for your reply. Cheers.
Whit
On 02/28/2012 01:03 AM, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Whit Hansell<skipper44@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote:Unless you use issue "aptitude safe-upgrade --no-new-installs" or have
I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc:Thanks for your reply. I had done some googling at the debian site and
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal
Quote: The difference between "safe-upgrade"/"upgrade" and
"full-upgrade"/"dist-upgrade" only appears when new versions of packages
stand in different dependency relationships from old versions of those
packages. The "aptitude safe-upgrade" command does not install new packages
nor remove installed packages.
found info on the differences as you state. I have to admit I am not sure
which is the best way to update/upgrade my system. I had read a few years
ago that "aptitude" was the recommended way as it supposedly handles
dependencies better so have always used it. But also "knew" about the
statement about it not removing packages, etc. Actually I have seen it do
some of that but they may be non-free and contrib. I don't know. I do know
that there are "files" removed and new ones installed but then that is NOT a
full package as in GNOME going from 2.30.x to Gnome 3.x.
Appreciate the replies. Have received one comment to personal addy that
Gnome 3 is buggy and not to use it so am going to check around and see what
info I can find about it before I do an apt-get safe-upgrade.
"Aptitude::CmdLine::Safe-Upgrade::No-New-Installs" in
"/etc/apt/apt.conf", "aptitude safe-upgrade" will install new packages
to resolve dependencies.
(If GNOME 3's buggy, file a bug or bugs!)
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