[Gllug] Aptitude

[Matthew King]

Jack Bertram <jack at jbertram.net> writes:

> * Matthew King <matthew.king at monnsta.net> [050914 10:20]:
>> If you're not paying attention to a system upgrade, however minor and in
>> whichever OS/distribution, then you deserve whatever mess you get in.
>
> Given I'm clearly a muppet and don't deserve to be adminning any
> computer (no offence taken, by the way) does anyone have advice for my

Good, because it had nothing to do with you. It was a response to the
email I was responding to (surprisingly), in which the poster alluded to
upgrading without paying attention.

> original question of how I get aptitude (interactive) to recommend the
> same set of packages for upgrade as aptitude (command-line)?  Is there a

I am not sure but I would guess that interactively it's performing a
dist-upgrade whereas on the CLI you are running the upgrade command,
which does not attempt to resolve dependencies in any way. I seem to
remember that the problem you're having, or something much like it, is
why I stopped using aptitude way back when and resorted to apt-get.

Matthew

-- 
I must take issue with the term "a mere child," for it has been my
invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely
preferable to that of a mere adult.
                                           --  Fran Lebowitz
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