On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 09:38:39PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Ah, nice catch... "--reinstall". I've used that *in desperate moments* > of things not gelling together. I never had problems with it, but I > can't say that I ever used it on apt.
Another one I've seen recently is: apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs So, e.g. to make upgrading easier: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs apt-get dist-upgrade It allows a finer control on the upgrade process, and therefore, IMHO, less chance for something to go wrong, but on the chance that something does go wrong the error message should be a lot clearer and not surrounded by spam. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X