If any Debian experts could give some some advice I'd appreciate it. My question is, am I using aptitude wrong? What should I do differently?
My debian laptop is a bit behind on updates at the moment, but I want to install certain packages should bring in dependent updates. I'll run the rest of the updates later. I tried to use aptitude to bring in a package called clearlooks-phenix-theme (a GTK3 that fits better with my Mate GTK2 theme). Aptitude reported that there were unmet dependencies, which isn't surprising as there are some major gnome updates waiting to be installed and GTK3 got bumped a revision. However rather than resolving the dependencies and discovering that dependent packages needed to be updated, the only solution aptitude could offer involved removing nearly 100 packages including GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3! If I had naively allowed aptitude to continue I'd be left with a completely broken system. None of aptitude's other solutions involved anything other than removing lots of packages either. When I went back to using apt-get, I was not surprised to see that it resolved dependencies simply by upgrading a half dozen packages along with the new package install and everything is happy. Needless to say this experience has not impressed me with aptitude's lack of super cow powers. Seems like a dangerous tool, if the end user naively clicked "yes" to aptitude's suggestions. Am I using aptitude wrong? Or is apt-get still the only game in town? thanks, Michael /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
