[Breezy]Adept Wizard Upgrade B0rked system

[C Hamel]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:53, Derek Broughton wrote:
> C Hamel wrote:
> > I am a bit puzzled by the Adept Upgrade Wizard vs 'apt-get upgrade' in
> > the fact that the wizard installs 14, upgrades 97, removes 4, whereas apt
> > says it will be upgrading 80, not upgrading 16 and removing/newly
> > installing nothing.
>
> I don't use adept, but clearly adept is doing a "dist-upgrade" rather than
> an upgrade - this is obvious from the fact that it is offering to remove
> files (I can't tell if it's using apt-get or aptitude).  "upgrade", by
> definition will _only_ upgrade existing packages.
>
> > What makes all this important to me is the fact that the wizard b0rked my
> > system by leaving out multitudinous libs w/o advising me there would be a
> > problem of any kind b-4 said upgrade commenced.  Apt, on the other hand
> > is leaving out various KDE pkgs.
>
> I'm far more interested in why you think the wizard broke anything.  It
> can't "leave out" packages, but if you were using dapper it could install
> packages that, themselves, were missing dependencies.  Generally, the only
> way to get a broken situation using breezy is if you have non-ubuntu
> sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> > Are both the wizard & apt synonymous?
>
> Yes, but the commands _you_ used, weren't :-)
> --
> derek
Thanks for clearing that up. :-)  Perhaps that is what transpired.  Fact is, I 
forgot to delete the backports, which doubtless means I'd have to perform 
'apt-get update'. (Getting used to a new distro is amazingly frustrating, at 
times. I used Gentoo for better than a year, prior.  I finally gave up on it 
because it, like SuSE, et. al., all had b0rked apps,  post-update.)

I used the wizard to upgrade, and when I finished some apps were broken.  K3b, 
though a new version, ceased to write DVD+RWs/CD-Rs.  That was the first one 
I noted.  Wish I'd kept the log.  Instead, I got out my trusty backup.  I'd 
already done some updates w/o problems but this was my first attempt at an 
upgrade.

Thanks, again, for the answers.
-- 
	...CH
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