Jaunty updates not ready

[Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Karl F. Larsen schreef:
> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>   
>>> Mark Kirkwood <markir at paradise.net.nz>  said:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>> Usually doing
>>>>
>>>> $ sudo aptitude update
>>>>
>>>> will fix that - but clearly does not in your case.
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>> If you look back on Karl's post you'll see that he never did do 
>>> <sudo aptitude update>.  He did <sudo aptitude upgrade> twice and <sudo
>>> aptitude safe-upgrade> once.  
>>>
>>> @ Karl, you still need to do <sudo aptitude update> /first/ before
>>> anything will work.  Otherwise you are trying to upgrade to already
>>> existing packages.
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>> Nice catch - I misread what Karl had written!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mark
>>   
> 
>>   
>     Yes my bad. I see from my recorded first effort I did first update 
> and second safe-update. I just did it your way and it did the "update" 
> and that looks good, and now the "safe-update" is still working with 
> lots of updates being got from the mirror's.
> 
>     I will send both to this list when it's done in a few minutes like 
> 15 minutes it says :-)
> 
> Karl
> 
Karl, in addition to what Thorny wrote:

There are 3 aptitude commands that you have to know:

update		-> fetch a new package list
safe-upgrade	-> upgrade packages without messing with dependencies
full-upgrade	-> upgrade packages, and install or uninstall dependencies
if needed.

You shouldn't use these commands:

upgrade		-> old, deprecated
dist-upgrade	-> old, deprecated
safe-update	-> does not exist

Be careful, spelling really matters.

I understand that the difference between update and upgrade may be
difficult for a native English speaker like you because they are
synonyms. This is when being a non-native actually becomes an advantage. ;-)


- --
Amedee
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAknjNFEACgkQxc/p9jmqUL5WHwCg6TE+xJCEirg0F2uMzr+Fmr72
oykAn25K3IGjVoxmPTz/LX+VLYSfNxBr
=tOQW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----