On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:50:01AM +1200, Daniel Lawson wrote:
I've just upgraded a server from 3.0 to 3.1. Aptitude is the "official" way to perform the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1 I believe, due to some deficiencies in apt-get.
I was about to call FUD, but it appears that this is true: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes.en.txt -- section 2.1 ... The sarge version of `aptitude' is the preferred program for package management from console. It has proven to be better at dependency resolution than `apt-get'. `aptitude' supports most command line operations of `apt-get'. If you are still using `dselect', you should also give `aptitude' a try as frontend for package management. -- I've been using apt-get the whole time. Will have to give aptitude a whirl, I'd always assumed it wasn't a command line tool so never fiddled with it. James.