installing Feisty, but don't ask how. Aptitude "manual or howto files.

[Simon Wong]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:04 +1000, Anthony J Brow wrote:
> Further it has been suggested that aptitude should be used iso apt-get
> or synaptics. Is there a manual or similar for aptitude. Sofar nothing
> satisfactory on google as far as I can see.

Tony, in your case I second Shane's suggestion that you use the CD to do
the upgrade, only a few extra packages will be required to be downloaded
separately.

The suggestion for aptitude is to use it whenever you read some
instructions that say "sudo apt-get install foo".  Substitute aptitude
for apt-get.

Aptitude has built in help, use "?" to access this basic help or use the
"Help menu" and read the User manual.

Please do yourself a favour and just use Synaptic!  You'll find it a lot
easier to use and sometimes aptitude and Synaptic can get out of sync
which is not always easy to correct.

Good luck, it is possible ;-)


-- 
Simon Wong <simon at dt.net.au>
Dependable Technologies Pty Ltd
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