What I did was "sudo aptitude --no-gui", and type u, then U and g, and choose among proposed conflict resolutions. I didn't know actually this is called safe-upgrade.
I will try directly run "sudo aptitude full-upgrade" in terminal. I admitted that I wasn't really sure about the appropriate process of upgrading by aptitude, and didn't fully understand of aptitude. Thanks guys! :) Heddle Weaver <weaver2wo...@gmail.com> writes: > On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > > Qi Qi: > > > > I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude > > upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and > > gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. > > I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having > trouble using full-upgrade which you didn't have if you used a > safe-upgrade instead. > > <large snip> > > With aptitude, upgrading to a new distribution, which is essentially what you > are doing when moving to a new version of unstable, > 'aptitude full-upgrade' is appropriate after 'aptitude update'. > > Follow this with 'aptitude autoclean'. > > Any incremental updates after that, 'aptitude safe-upgrade' is appropriate. > > Doing it this way, no problems should be experienced. > I certainly haven't had any. > > Aptitude may object to removing something because of dependency problems, but > then install the new version of that package which will > resolve those issues. > But, from what you are saying, you haven't been issuing the correct commands > and this is what has created the situation. > By doing it now, you may very well still resolve the situation satisfactorily. > I should also recommend installing the package: 'aptitude-doc-(insert > appropriate language code here)' which you will be able to find > through the aptitude interface and read it! > > I should also recommend installing another package called 'deborphan' which > will help to clean up the mess. > > With unstable, it would be smart thinking to also install 'apt-listbugs', and > reading the messages it outputs at the end of aptitude > update before you install anything. > Regards, > > Weaver. > -- > > Religion is regarded by the common people as true, > by the wise as false, > and by the rulers as useful. > > — Lucius Annæus Seneca. > > Terrorism, the new religion. > -- Qi Qi -- 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/878vxg11lx.fsf@lab1.Debian-lab
