upgrading to a newer version using aptitude

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/19/07, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have seen quite a few posts about upgrading an older version of Ubuntu
> to the newer version using the update-manager. I am wondering, what is
> the relationship between this application and aptitude? Aptitude is
> supposed to be more intelligent package manager than apt-get was. I have
> been using it for some months on Debian machines and it seems to be
> working quite nicely. I have already tried it on Edgy but only for usual
> updates. Anybody tried upgrading a Ubuntu version using aptitude?
>

My understanding is that update-manager also does *other* steps, not
just updating the individual packages. I've updated three desktops and
a laptop so far with update-manager (from edgy to feisty) with no
problems. I've never had a completely trouble-free upgrade with
apt-get or aptitude. I'd recommend using update-manager to change
major releases, and then use aptitude or apt-get to do the normal
upgrades while using the stable releases.

-Eamonn