On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:01:38 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several > places that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get,
The advice on what to use seems to change from time to time :-) > I first tried with it. I started with only 1 line in sources.list: > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > and tried several times "aptitude safe-upgrade" Each time, aptitude > stayed indefinitely on "resolving dependencies" and did nothing else. > I then issued: "apt-get dist-upgrade", and all worked perfectly, in less > than 30 minutes. This is worth reading: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations > My question: is it better to also revert to apt-get for package > management, or is the problem specific to the upgrade to a new release? I'd say: use whatever works better every time. I have not faced any problem in stable/oldstable releases when using official repos and "apt-get dist-upgrade". Never. A different thing could be using external and third-party repositories over a testing/sid distribution. In such scenario there can be times in which aptitude can be of help. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jkcuoc$lch$8...@dough.gmane.org
