..and 2 not upgraded.

[James Freer]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:58:19 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>
>> It would be easier to just run this in a termial:
>>
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>
> Isn't apt-get incompatible with aptitude?  They use a different system
> for marking packages, IIRC.
> Thufir

I don't know that they use a different system - they have different
databases and one shouldn't use both, either or. If you print out the
aptitude manual (about an inch thick) you'll find that it is a highly
complex package manager - perhaps the best there is... but few read
it. Aptitude used to be the default Debian package management system
but i think most folk have just got used to apt-get. I used to use
aptitude until apt-get autoremove came out as apt-get --purge didn't
work for removing dependencies like aptitude's purge. Now there's less
to choose between them although aptitude --verbose (on cli) will give
far more info than apt-get with dselect.

The apt-get How to which has now been discontinued provided good
documentation on apt and it's a shame that no one has updated it for
several years. I prefer to use synaptic for installing and apt-get
autoremove for removal. Synaptic's claim to remove dependencies
doesn't work... autoremove i've found excellent.

You have to choose between apt & synaptic or aptitude. Switching
between them as a poster discovered (with aptitude) - it's a bit too
smart at times... perhaps why folk stay with apt. I spent a weekend
experimenting a while ago... someone will say i'm wrong - do some
experimenting!

james