On 2026-04-27 23:39:23 +0200, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: > The recommended way to do upgrades is apt or apt-get. I'm sorry to > hear that aptitude can't handle the situation.
apt / apt-get does not always install Recommends, which can yield a somewhat broken system: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845299 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951638 (it seems that aptitude also has similar issues, but less often). In complex cases (e.g. when aptitude refuses to upgrade a package), I sometimes do "apt install -s ..." to see how an upgrade should be resolved. When apt does not signal an issue, I go back to aptitude, giving hints on other packages to install (or remove), but sometimes this still blocks due to a broken Recommends, which apt did not see. So aptitude is safer. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
