I'm calling this message an "observation" because I don't know enough to offer an explanation of what it is I am observing. But generally I have had a better experience with apt-get than I have with aptitude. I think it's Karsten Self who has written a piece explaining why aptitude is better. He knows more than I do, but here's my latest experience.
Lately I've been doing apt-get and aptitude every day. Recently apt-get dist-upgrade has been downloading stuff when aptitude dist-upgrade does not. Today I have an extreme example. If I do aptitude dist-upgrade, I'm told that a whole bunch of KDE files are being held back. If I do apt-get dist-upgrade I'm told that I can continue to download all 155 MB of the KDE stuff. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech