On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:51:05 +0200 "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote:
> > > Has anyone any experience of doing something like this? Best way to > > go about things? > > > > Anthony > > I made best experience with apt-get upgrade, then after it, apt-get > dist- upgrade. > > This worked better than the alternative: aptitude safe-upgrade after > it aptitude full-upgrade. However for short or long I suggest to > change to aptitude, as the dependencies are better made. > Yes, I'd agree, I recently upgraded a laptop which doesn't normally run sid, but I needed it for one particular job. I don't know how long it had been left alone, but it might easily have been a year or more. I normally use aptitude, so I did a safe- then a full-upgrade, expecting problems, but there weren't any at either stage. I rebooted between, as there would have been a kernel change at the first step. No special precautions, as it was basically a spare operating system, I could reinstall without losing anything. You might want to be a bit more careful. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110714214614.10abf...@jresid.jretrading.com
