On 2005-05-01, Luis Finotti penned: > Dear all, > > Just my experience: >
[snip] > But, I guess that the insallation software used apt-get (it was a > net-install), since the first time I tried to use apitutde, right > after the installation, it wanted to remove MANY packages... > (Nothing could be considered "unused" yet, I suppose...) Not knowing > enough to decide whether or not it was really wise to remove them, I > again stuck with good old apt-get. > > So, with net-install at least, using aptitude from the start might > not work "out of the box". [snip] > P.S.: any comments on what happened in the laptop installation or > how could I have fixed it would be greatly appreciated, although I > will check the man pages (etc.) before my next install. Well, I just did a fresh install from the latest debian-installer image last night ... but I'll grant that I do things weirdly. For example, I knew that I wanted to run unstable, so after the system rebooted, I shot straight down to "finish install" or whatever that option is, rather than going through the configuration steps. (There was probably useful stuff in there, but I'm impatient -- I'd had cd burning issues and was about at the end of my rope; I just wanted the stupid thing to be done!) As far as I know, dist-upgrade works better if you have the newest version for your dist of everything you have installed, so I pointed my sources.list file to the web and ran aptitude. Things were marked as installed, but not upgraded, so I went through and manually hit "+" for those things. There's probably an easy way to do this using a built-in expression, but as I hadn't added anything to the base install, I only had to care about a handful of packages. The only snag was the one I always have using aptitude: when I updated the sources to point to unstable instead of sarge, aptitude gets confused. I needed to use apt-get for the package list update, and from then on I could use aptitude easily. Aptitude never tried to uninstall anything, but now that I think about it, that's probably because I only had the base packages installed, and I assume it's smart enough not to encourage you to blow those away. Now that I've typed all of this up, I realize that it probably doesn't help you much, but maybe someone will see what I do and have helpful comments, so I'm sending it anyway. -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
