-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 10:50, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: [snip] > On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic >> instead of aptitude. >> >> RLH > > Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > 4.4 Upgrading packages > > The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases > is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer > decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly. > > 4.4.2 Upgrading aptitude > > Upgrade tests have shown that etch's version of aptitude is better at > solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get > or sarge's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first [...]
Aptitude is very aggressive and usually wrong about removing other "unneeded" apps when you remove one app. Maybe this only happens when you start out using apt-get, but is nonetheless very aggravating and disconcerting. Thus, I stick with apt-get. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFcXPVS9HxQb37XmcRAlJ4AJ4v0o6AgoRunKJ6y9W0J/6aQxWZNwCgzMw1 KUorzqjJWR64kLC6/MGtmJ4= =9I8e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
