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aptitude !

Posted Nov 9, 2007 15:35 UTC (Fri) by spotter (subscriber, #12199)
In reply to: aptitude ! by xav
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

I've been using aptitude on ubuntu since warty.  Have upgraded my machine from warty to hardy
(yes, laptop runs hardy) via aptitude since then.  While I've had issues following ubuntu
development, its usually quickly fixable by jumping into IRC for a few minutes as I'm usually
not the only to have the problem.


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aptitude !

Posted Nov 9, 2007 15:49 UTC (Fri) by xav (subscriber, #18536) [Link]

I've had some problems at distribution upgrade (from 6.10 to 7.04 IIRC) with aptitude, and
have been told that those upgrades *have* to be made with the upgrade_manager, because it does
more things than simply upgrade.
Effectively, on another laptop using the recommended tool the upgrade process did a big
cleaning of some packages and installed some more. Sorry, I can't remember which ones.

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