Package: release-notes Version: lenny Severity: normal Hello,
4.5.4. Upgrade apt and/or aptitude first It is not clear from the text of this section that if you have aptitude installed you should do the: # aptitude install aptitude and not the: # apt-get install apt I've done a few upgrades and done the apt-get install apt rather than the aptitude install aptitude and the result is that aptitude is uninstalled. After installing aptitude then the apt-utils package remains uninstalled and you get warnings from aptitude until after you install it. At least this is my experience. I could be wrong about what I should be doing but I just did another system and this time did (only) the "aptitude install aptitude" and the upgrade worked just fine from that point. So, I believe the text should be much more clear about which command should be run. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org