Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-29 Thread Whit Hansell
Tom, thank you for the info. I agree w. sending in bug reports. It's just that there is such a learning curve w.Gnome 3 and KDE4 which I had tried before I changed over to Gnome 2.30.x previously. I have gone ahead and done the full apt-get dist-upgrade and played w. the new Gnome and found

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-28 Thread Shaun
On 28/02/2012 01:25, Whit Hansell wrote: Thanks for your reply. I had done some googling at the debian site and found info on the differences as you state. I have to admit I am not sure which is the best way to update/upgrade my system. I had read a few years ago that aptitude was the

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Monsieur Louk
I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between safe-upgrade/upgrade and full-upgrade/ dist-upgrade only appears

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Shaun
On 27/02/2012 02:38, Whit Hansell wrote: OK, Y'all. Confusin', confusin', confusin. Quetjun' Is it safe to do an apt-get dist-upgrade? I mean it says it will add over a Gig of new files and stuff while removing a number of files. I know that when I do an aptitude safe-upgraade

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Whit Hansell
On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Whit Hansell skippe...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: