Justin Hahn wrote:
>
> > >Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect.
> >
> > Brian,
> > Why this assertion? I thought dselect was on its way out...
>
> especially seeing as apt-get and aptitude are both much easier to deal with
> than dselect in the eyes of everyone I've ever talked to. (Myself included.)
I used to use aptitude but it gradually got worse up to the point of
being unusable - when I do update nad then upgrade it only lists few
packages to be updated (even though apt-get dist-upgrade lists a lot of
packges to be updated).
I used to use aptitude this way:
u (to update package list)
g (to see what's going to happen)
g (to make it happen)
now it doesn't work (the actions are a lot different from what apt-get
dist-upgrade would do)
what's the secret?
(I already asked this few times but got no responses - does aptitude
work for anybody?)
TIA
erik
