On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 13:33:28 +0100 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 08 June 2014 12:55:26 Slavko wrote: > > Migration from apt-get/aptitude to Synaptic must be safe. The > > problem in opposite direction, i.e. from Synaptic to > > apt-get/aptitude, where Synaptic lack some functionality about the > > marking/removing the automatically installed packages. > > I have on occasion used Synaptic on the boxen I administrate for > other people. I have then not infrequently switched into aptitude to > sort out the problems that seemed to me to be an inevitable > concomitant to using Synaptic. The one thing that I do like > Synaptic for (though I would not install it specially for the > purpose) is searching to see what software of a certain type is > available. > Oddly, I do it the other way around. I use aptitude from the command line for routine upgrades, and when it gets messy (I have four sid installations) I switch to Synaptic. I've never really got good with interactive aptitude, I've tried a few times but there's something about it I find completely unintuitive, so I'm much quicker at finding workable upgrade combinations with Synaptic. Having said that, with sid it's usually best to let a problem simmer for a few days, many problems are the result of an incomplete upgrade set, and usually fix themselves. And I've also occasionally found that upgrading in stages, each time doing the ones that will work without removing anything, can completely clear a problem for which aptitude has offered to remove half my system. When I have declined this option in a full-upgrade, aptitude has usually sulked and said in that case it will just leave everything as it is, so there... On the subject of mixing tools, I think there can be trouble if you try holding and pinning different things with different tools, that aptitude and apt-get/dpkg use different meta-data for this. I don't do much of it, so I've always used whichever tool seemed best at the time. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140608234229.3a2c8...@jretrading.com
