On 02/04/11 17:46, Neil Perry wrote: > I would suggest using safe-upgrade. Don't use unless you want a broken > packages. > > Thanks > > Neil True enough. I stuck with full-upgrade because the other Neil asked the question with it: > On Apr 2, 2011 5:43 PM, "Vinothan Shankar" <neversaymon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 01/04/11 20:34, Neil Greenwood wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is there any way to get aptitude to do a full-upgrade while installing ...but I concur. Safe-upgrade is, as the name suggests, the safer thing. Shame it can't be replicated by search pattern as full-upgrade can, though.
>>> a new package? I just had a situation where I was trying to install >>> mumble after doing an 'aptitude update', and got into a conflict state >>> because libqtcore4 was going to be upgraded *as well as* being >>> installed as a dependency of mumble. >>> >>> Hmm, not sure I explained that very well... >>> >>> The version of mumble I was about to install depended on the new >>> version of libqtcore4, but all the other Qt apps installed depended on >>> the previous version. So the best suggestion of the 'aptitude install >>> mumble' command was to leave everything unchanged! >>> >>> So, what I want is something like 'aptitude full-upgrade and install >>> mumble' - does such a thing exist? >> Not sure that it does exactly, but... the ~U search-pattern matches >> installed and upgradeable packages, so 'aptitude install mumble ~U' >> should do the job, as install is also the aptitude command to upgrade a >> package if possible. >> >> Failing that, 'aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude install mumble' will >> work, of course. >>
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