On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:54, kpwatson@pop3.ukfsn.org wrote:
You have to run apt-get dist-upgrade in order to get it to work harder and remove stuff if need-be.
Isn't apt-get dist-upgrade a bit of a sledgehammer option? :o)
According to the apt-get manpage, dist-upgrade does the same as upgrade, only it can sacrifice other packages to make a better upgrade.
What this means is that it can remove stuff if it needs to in order to upgrade nicely. I *always* run dist-upgrade with the -u flag, which causes it to tell you exactly what it will do before it starts.
As long as you check it before letting it get on with it, there's no reason not to use dist-upgrade.
The dist-ugprade algorithm is what synaptic uses anyway when you hit the dist-upgrade button on synaptic's toolbar.
D.