aptitude hangs

[James Freer]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this normal for aptitude to hang?
>
> thufir at dur:~#
> thufir at dur:~# aptitude upgrade --download-only
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>
> ^C
> thufir at dur:~#
>
>
> I found:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/804782
> http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/bug-631071-aptitude-hangs-while-
> loading-cache-help-203816062.html
>
> However, that doesn't seem exactly the same...
>
> I think that this might be from interrupting an aptitude download?  I
> recently upgraded to 12.10 and have been upgrading the packages since.
> thanks,
>
> Thufir

have you got the syntax correct. Aptitude uses update, safe-upgrade,
full-upgrade --download only is an option but i've never used it.
"Upgrade" i think was deprecated.

I've not known aptitude hang but i've had it set up with aliases in
the bashrc so i rarely look at the man page these days. Good while
back like 2008 aptitude used to retain an icon for the 5 mins or so
before it cleared after doing an upgrade whereas apt-get's icon
cleared when you exited the terminal.

Try again and see what you get without the download - i think the
syntax is wrong.

james