[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude question

[Neil Perry]

I would suggest using safe-upgrade.  Don't use unless you want a broken
packages.

Thanks

Neil
On Apr 2, 2011 5:43 PM, "Vinothan Shankar" <neversaymonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/11 20:34, Neil Greenwood wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there any way to get aptitude to do a full-upgrade while installing
>> a new package? I just had a situation where I was trying to install
>> mumble after doing an 'aptitude update', and got into a conflict state
>> because libqtcore4 was going to be upgraded *as well as* being
>> installed as a dependency of mumble.
>>
>> Hmm, not sure I explained that very well...
>>
>> The version of mumble I was about to install depended on the new
>> version of libqtcore4, but all the other Qt apps installed depended on
>> the previous version. So the best suggestion of the 'aptitude install
>> mumble' command was to leave everything unchanged!
>>
>> So, what I want is something like 'aptitude full-upgrade and install
>> mumble' - does such a thing exist?
> Not sure that it does exactly, but... the ~U search-pattern matches
> installed and upgradeable packages, so 'aptitude install mumble ~U'
> should do the job, as install is also the aptitude command to upgrade a
> package if possible.
>
> Failing that, 'aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude install mumble' will
> work, of course.
>
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