Putting back on list, having erroneously taken it off. Sorry Mark. :-( On Wednesday 08 June 2011 17:59:58 Mark Panen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 14:41:36 Mark Panen wrote: > >> I don't understand why "aptitude update" shows 560 new updates but > >> "aptitude safe-upgrade" shows none, yet "apt-get install" works fine, > >> i can install packages but not update. > > > > I think that you may be confusing new packages with available updates. > > New packages are available and you can install them, but they are not > > yet installed. > > > > I have just run aptitude update with the following result: > > > > <quote> > > Current status: 4 updates (+3), 854 new (+4) > > </quote> > > > > In this situation I have only 4 new updates that would be (and were) > > installed by aptitude full-upgrade. The 854 are as it says new - i.e. > > new packages. They will be installed only if I do aptitude install > > <package>. > > > > You can update, and indeed are updating. You can, as you say, install > > packages. You can't upgrade because you have no pending updates with > > which to upgrade, you are already fully upgraded. > > > > You are getting into that confusion that comes from switching from yum to > > apt! > > > > Lisi > > Can't be, there must be tons of updates since 6.0.0 has been released.
I understood you to say that you had installed the updates from 6.0.1a?? Sorry if I misunderstood. It is possible that the software you have installed (which I understood you to say was minimal) has not been updated since 6.0.1a. I got confused because you referred to "new updates". Either they were new packages, or they were updates - they cannot have been both. It really does seem possible that they were new packages and the packages you had chosen, which I understood you to say were minimal, had not been updated. It is indeed quite a long time since 6.0.1a, but the hypothesis at least fits the known facts. This is Squeeze, which is stable. I.e. it won't have many updates. Lisi -- 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/201106082246.14266.lisi.re...@gmail.com
