On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:55:01 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all
> How do I get upgrade all the dependencies of a given package to their
> newest available version? I do not want in the process to  upgrade the
> entire distribution. I am looking something similar to Gentoo's
> emerge -av -DNu <package>

aptitude -s install '~i~R^<package>$'

If you like the list of actions that aptitude shows in response to that
command then you can run it again without "-s".

I prefer to use the interactive interface of aptitude if I want to carry
out such fine-grained changes to my system. 

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          Florian   |


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