[ubuntu-uk] upgrade

[Tez]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2006-12-14, chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:34 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>>     
>>> On 2006-12-14, chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Upgrade using the graphical update manager, +not+ apt-get. It is not
>>>> equivalent anymore, sadly.
>>>>         
>>> What about aptitude?
>>>       
>> Not sure. I think I remember hearing that Debian now officially
>> recommends aptitude for dist-upgrades. I don't know if it works with
>> Ubuntu though. I don't think so.
>>     
>
> Hmm.  I've dist-upgraded from breezy to dapper and from dapper to edgy
> using it.  The second one was a bit rough: it worked much better on
> the second computer (over ssh) than on the first (in xterm in an XFCE4
> session).
>
> I prefer to rely on console rather than GUI tools for upgrading....
>
>
>   
I recently (a few hours ago) upgraded my test box from edgy to feisty,
I'd used apt-get to get dapper to edgy (which was fun), but this time I
used aptitude and it went (relatively) smoothly. It's especially good at
resolving dependency issues and will give you several solutions with
scores for each. It was smoother than apt-get anyway.

Tez