>>>>> "AB" == Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> writes:
AB> Why should that be grave (in the current situation)? aptitude does not
AB> work well with apt from experimental yet, yes, see #764506 and
AB> #762846. But since it's apt from experimental, it's not
AB> release-critical for Jessie.
I was just thinking that the first command one needs to do is aptitude
update
file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch01s01s05.html
Once you have fresh lists of packages, you can choose the packages to
upgrade, install, or remove as described in the
previous section. To review the actions you have requested, press g once.
When installing the kaffeine-mozilla package
(from the previous example), the following screen appears:
So they couldn't get started.
P.S., from man page
-u
Begins updating the package lists as soon as the program starts.
i.e., very important.
update
Updates the list of available packages from the apt sources (this
is equivalent to "apt-get update")
Actually no longer equivalent as it is broken.
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