On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 13:20, Erik Steffl wrote: > 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?)
I just started testing aptitude a few days ago, and that's exactly what I do. It's worked for me so far. I don't think it does a dist-upgrade, only upgrade. (The man page is not too clear on that issue, but I think it would mention dist-upgrade if that is what it was doing.)
