Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 oct 20, 13:03:32, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 15:05:36 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote: > > > > I believe someone demonstrated quite recently on list that dpkg has some > > limits in the number and/or combination of

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 15:05:36 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrei writes: > > > dpkg does its own dependency checking, in addition to APT (the > > > software, not the command), and will prevent any inconsistencies > > > unless you use one of

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > dpkg does its own dependency checking, in addition to APT (the > > software, not the command), and will prevent any inconsistencies > > unless you use one of the --force switches. > > What it does not do is resolve dependencies.

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread R. Ramesh
So, if you don't pin down the priority of deb-multimedia, virtually every audio- and video-related package on your system will be replaced with the deb-multimedia version, which for the sake of stability is very likely a bad idea. So it is safer to lower the priority of deb-multimedia and that of

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:58:18 -0500 "R. Ramesh" wrote: (...) > I have these exact lines in my sources.list also. I thought we have > backports so that we can get the newer version of packages. For > example, buster multimedia has mythtv 0.30 and backports has mythtv > 0.31 (the last time I

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread R. Ramesh
To resolve this, you might consider to create a file like e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/multimedia . Here the content of that file looks like: Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster Pin-Priority: 332 Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > dpkg does its own dependency checking, in addition to APT (the > software, not the command), and will prevent any inconsistencies > unless you use one of the --force switches. What it does not do is resolve dependencies. Apt recursively resolves dependencies, installing them as

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 25 oct 20, 21:00:03, Joe wrote: > > Synaptic, the GUI tool, is a front end to apt-get. All the apt tools > are a front end to dpkg, which does all the work but does no dependency > checking and is therefore not safe to be used directly. dpkg does its own dependency checking, in addition

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:53:16 -0500 "R. Ramesh" wrote: (...) > Nothing fancy. Installed debian 10 from USB and added multi-media and > installed mythfrontend. That is all I have done. > This is a NUC Pentium (N3700) box and not fancy at all.  Here is my > kernel (...) > My

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread R. Ramesh
To begin with, which distribution is it? In general, with Stable, it pretty much doesn't matter which tool is used. The kind of problems you have indicate Unstable or Testing. First, apt is pretty much apt-get, with different syntax and a few extra features. Aptitude can generally do a better

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread Joe
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:12:19 -0500 Ram Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > >   I am trying to upgrade the current setup and I am unable to > understand the differences between aptitude vs. apt-get usage. > When I do apt-get -s upgrade, I get > > myth2 [rramesh] 100 > sudo apt-get -s upgrade > > Reading

aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread Ram Ramesh
Hi,   I am trying to upgrade the current setup and I am unable to understand the differences between aptitude vs. apt-get usage. When I do apt-get -s upgrade, I get myth2 [rramesh] 100 > sudo apt-get -s upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state