Jaunty updates not ready

[Karl F. Larsen]

Thorny wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:10:51 -0600, Karl F. Larsen posted:
>
>   
>> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>     
>>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Mark Kirkwood <markir at paradise.net.nz>  said:
>>>>   
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> Usually doing
>>>>>
>>>>> $ sudo aptitude update
>>>>>
>>>>> will fix that - but clearly does not in your case.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> If you look back on Karl's post you'll see that he never did do <sudo
>>>> aptitude update>.  He did <sudo aptitude upgrade> twice and <sudo
>>>> aptitude safe-upgrade> once.
>>>>
>>>> @ Karl, you still need to do <sudo aptitude update> /first/ before
>>>> anything will work.  Otherwise you are trying to upgrade to already
>>>> existing packages.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Nice catch - I misread what Karl had written!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>   
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Yes my bad. I see from my recorded first effort I did first update
>> and second safe-update. I just did it your way and it did the "update" and
>> that looks good, and now the "safe-update" is still working with lots of
>> updates being got from the mirror's.
>>
>>     I will send both to this list when it's done in a few minutes like
>> 15 minutes it says :-)
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
> Karl, it's not clear to me that this stuff is clear to you yet from what
> you wrote above. 
>
> Note that "update", updates the package files lists and "upgrade"
> (safe-upgrade) is the actual upgrade process which can be followed by
> "dist-upgrade" (full-upgrade). We all tend to throw the update/upgrade
> words around with their connotations in the English language. However,
> they have specific meanings when used in the context of upgrading a distro.
>
>
>
>   
    I read man aptitude and then I understood what was wanted and it 
works very well.

Karl


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