Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> writes: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:41:24 -0500 (EST), Christoph Groth wrote: >> For years, I've been using apt-get happily. Now I wanted to switch >> to aptitude because it is supposed to resolve conflicts better but I >> find myself unable to tame it. Any hints are highly appreciated. > > There was a recent post about this. Search the archives for this list > (debian-user) for the month of February, 2010. I don't remember the > title, but it had something to do with aptitude vs. apt-get. The > solution had something to do with "keep-all", or something like that. > Sorry I don't have time to look it up for you right now. If you can't > find it, let me know.
Thank you, "aptitude keep-all" did the trick. It was not clear to me from skimming the documentation that aptitude keeps a state beyond that of dpkg/apt between invocations. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874ol06xgx....@falma.de
