Jaunty upgrades

[Karl F. Larsen]

Thorny wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:40:29 -0600, Karl F. Larsen posted:
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>> I had a problem with the GUI upgrade software. Some good guys on this list
>> suggested use of "aptitude" in a terminal. I am old and use a terminal
>> often for my learning g++ and now getting upgrades. Right now I am getting
>> large upgrades to Open Office.
>>
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> Karl, I'm not sure why you posted this, there doesn't seem to be a
> question involved but no matter, it's slow this morning, we have time to
> chat.
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>> Then I set up MY computer with: $sudo aptitude update and you can see this
>> happening and it takes just a minute to train my laptop. Then I use the
>> last step: $sudo aptitude safe-upgrade.
>>
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> What are you "training" your laptop to do? That command updates the
> packages lists for APT.
>
> Do you only do safe-upgrade or do you follow it with full-upgrade?
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    If you would read what I wrote, I use safe-upgrade. If you read man 
aptitude it says that plain upgrade uses safe-upgrade most of the time.

    And I did get a large number of files.

Karl


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