Updates 4.8.3

[O. Sinclair]

On 04/05/12 21:42, Steve Riley wrote:
> On 2012-05-04 22:16:19 Georgi Kourtev<gkourtev at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Ah, here i found a good explanation, though it does not state what is
>> better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool
>
> (...sending again, omitted the list in my response...)
>
> In my experience, "dist-upgrade" is more complete than "upgrade," because it
> can handle cases where dependencies bring in new packages that don't already
> exist.
>
> For example, say you currently have package foo:1.0 installed. foo:1.0 has no
> dependencies. Now it's time to upgrade to foo:1.1, and this version has a new
> dependency on bar:0.9. "apt-get upgrade" will hold foo back, because bar is
> currently not installed on your machine. "apt-get dist-upgrade" includes a
> dependency resolver and will not only upgrade foo:1.0 to foo:1.1 but also
> install bar:0.9.

for an upgrade of KDE dist-upgrade should not be necessary as it does 
not involve kernel etc. I did mine via normal upgrade and all went well.

I suspect a problem with local mirrors or some earlier upgrade not 
completed.