On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > During the past hour I've discovered half a dozen more programs that > were uninstalled, and a couple more where the executable will no longer > launch. Dist-upgrades suck rocks.
It may be better to do an upgrade before you do a dist-upgrade I append below section 4.4.5 of instructions for upgrading Debian Bill https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html 4.4.5. Minimal system upgrade In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below) directly might remove large numbers of packages that you will want to keep. We therefore recommend a two-part upgrade process: first a minimal upgrade to overcome these conflicts, then a full upgrade as described in Section 4.4.6, “Upgrading the system”. To do this, first run: # apt-get upgrade This has the effect of upgrading those packages which can be upgraded without requiring any other packages to be removed or installed. The minimal system upgrade can also be useful when the system is tight on space and a full upgrade cannot be run due to space constraints. If the apt-listchanges package is installed, it will (in its default configuration) show important information about upgraded packages in a pager. Press q after reading to exit the pager and continue the upgrade. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
