Dist Upgrade

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Mon Nov 2 19:37:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:

>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Emil Payne wrote:
>
>> I've been waiting but I still see no upgrade.  Synaptic doesn't show
>> anything and neither does update-manager -d. I've got my preferences set
>> to show normal upgrades.
>>
>
> I do know you can't use dist-upgrade on Ubuntu.  It will break a ton of
> stuff.

I haven't heard of this before. Anyone want to corroborate? Maybe I was 
lucky but I used it recently to upgrade some packages that were held 
back.


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