Bug#401317: Aptitude quite happily upgrades aptitude from sarge-etch
Hi Frans In testing out upgrade of a fresh sarge installation which included the desktop task ie. both Gnome and KDE, in desperation I found that (after updating sources.list to point to etch and 'apt-get update') the command aptitude upgrade aptitude gives Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: ... The following packages will be upgraded: base-files console-common console-data debconf debconf-i18n defoma desktop-base dictionaries-common discover1-data doc-debian doc-linux-text docbook-dsssl docbook-xml dosfstools edict esound-common fortunes-min gcc-3.4-base gnome-desktop-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-mime-data gnu-efi gs gs-common gsfonts gtk2-engines-spherecrystal hicolor-icon-theme hotplug iamerican ibritish imlib-base initrd-tools kanjidic kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-icon kdeedu-data kdegames-card-data kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdewallpapers knewsticker-scripts libeel2-data libevent1 libfinance-quote-perl libgda2-common libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgtk1.2-common libgtk2.0-common libgtksourceview-common libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libmad0 libmailtools-perl libmime-perl libnews-nntpclient-perl libpam-runtime libpango1.0-common libsnmp-base libss2 libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwnck-common libwww-perl linux-kernel-headers lsb-base mailx makedev manpages manpages-dev menu-xdg mime-support myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us ncurses-term net-tools pppconfig sharutils sysv-rc ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-opensymbol wamerican xml-core 83 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 662 not upgraded. Need to get 58.5MB of archives. After unpacking 11.9MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] and quite happily installs the 'etch' version of aptitude. I suspect this trick will work no matter what other Debian packages one has installed. After that I found I had to run aptitude install libfam0 and aptitude install libglu1-mesa to break two conflict loops and thereafter aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade proceeds quite happily. It says thet 0 packages will not be upgraded - but I won't know how well it works till it completes. Regards Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#401317: Aptitude quite happily upgrades aptitude from sarge-etch
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:07:38PM +0200, Jonathan Quick wrote: Hi Frans In testing out upgrade of a fresh sarge installation which included the desktop task ie. both Gnome and KDE, in desperation I found that (after updating sources.list to point to etch and 'apt-get update') the command aptitude upgrade aptitude aptitude upgrade does not take any more command line parameters. If you are thinking to upgrade aptitude aptitude install aptitude or since you need new tasksel too aptitude install aptitude tasksel That is a start for sure. But question still remain how best follow this if we were to present best known method for (dist-)upgrade. See more on Bug#401317. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
