upgrades

[David Vincent]

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Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> My real question is "Does not synaptic or adept do version upgrades as well as update-manager handling all the dependencies adequately".  Most or many people at least recommend using synaptic for upgrading as it's supposed to handle dependencies well. Is there any package manager that does just as well as update-manager is the question?

I think I know what you're asking now.

Update-manager handles day-to-day package upgrades just as easily as
Synaptic or adept afaik.  But when it comes to Distribution Upgrades
Update-manager has special logic/programming to resolve the weird
situations which arise as well as (previously mentioned) making sure
depreciated packages are removed and new packages required by the new
distribution *but not necessarily by your already installed packages*
are installed.

That is, Ibex proper may need package X which is not a dependency of any
of your other installed packages, thus performing an upgrade via
Synaptic etc. may result with it not being installed, whereas
Update-manager would make sure it was installed.

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