Strange but true 8.04 updates today May 26

[Derek Broughton]

chuck adams wrote:

> On Monday 26 May 2008 18:01:56 Paul Lemmons wrote:
> 
>>
>> Chuck, aptitude is much more forthcomming woth the reason why something
>> is not going in right. Try this:
>>
>> sudo aptitude update
>> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>> sudo aptitude full-upgrade
>>
>> One of the two last commands will probably tell you what is wrong.
> 
> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
> 
> is missing an additional argument.

Are you claiming that as an error message, or do you just think it needs
another argument?  That's the correct command.  Even before "safe-upgrade",
the commands "upgrade", "dist-upgrade", "update" and even "install" needed
no arguments.

That said, I don't think aptitude is any more likely than apt-get to tell
you what's wrong - but "clean" and "update" certainly aren't going to tell
you what's wrong with a previous install.  "aptitude -f install" might
help.
-- 
derek