On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:08:29 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:45:51PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:10:07 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> > Camaleón: >> >> (...) >> >> >> Did you first update the packages database? >> >> >> >> apt-get update >> >> aptitude update >> > >> > apt-get and aptitude both use the same package database. Running the >> > 'udpate' for both of them is not required. >> >> I just run "apt-get upgrade" and said there was nothing to do while >> running "aptitude upgrade" wanted to do very (I mean *very*) weird >> things, such as removing a bunch of packages. After updating aptitude >> database all went smooth... > > And you had already done an "apt-get update" before this happened?
Nope. Neither did it for "aptitude". > Remember, Aptitude's "resolver system" is different to apt-get's That's why I prefer to refresh both "separately". apt-get was happy with the current db state while aptitude wasn't. > P.S. I don't use aptitude but use apt-get whereas Jochen AFAIR use > aptitude. I neither use aptitude unless something goes wrong. Aptitude seems very powerful an capable but for me, it provides too many options that I barely use or pay attention to. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jkcs6v$lch$6...@dough.gmane.org