[Gllug] Ubuntu and me - suggestions requested (polite

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 14 20:08:17 UTC 2008


On Fri 14 Nov, John Edwards wrote:
> 
> I thought the current wisdom is to use the codenames in 
> /etc/apt/sources.list and not use 'stable', to avoid problems
> when you 'apt-get upgrade' one day and find that a new version
> has been released.
> 
> You might be aware of it (having read the Debian announce list),
> but what if a junior member of your sysadmin team is not?
>

   Debian now recommend aptitude instead of apt-get because it is better
able to handle dependencies and configuration issues.


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