what he said

Post #311,578 by beepster 7/23/09 2:05:47 PM Reply	what he said as I've had funny results there also. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #311,627 by Another Scott 7/23/09 7:42:02 PM Reply	Thanks, both of you. I was trying to be cautious... I'll have to read up on this stuff more. I appreciate the voices of experience. :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #311,630 by folkert 7/23/09 7:49:27 PM Reply	Yes, 'tis a good bit of advice there. Until Aptitude and Apt-get functionality come together (which is being done slowly) Either use: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade OR aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade && aptitude full-upgrade Those live are equivalent for each one, they will act differently, but in the long run give exactly the same results. And those lives are "just for demonstration" You should really only do the update and first upgrade on the same line, then the second one. For Apt-get I always add "-u" or "apt-get -u upgrade" which shows me everything its going to do.
Post #311,631 by Another Scott 7/23/09 7:51:51 PM Reply	Thanks, Greg. Always appreciated.
Post #311,675 by static 7/24/09 9:00:32 AM Reply	That's a good point about aptitude. It always seemed a little funky to me, as if it has its own copy of parts of the main apt database. I stopped using years ago. OTOH, I've never seen any problems mixing apt-get and synaptic. They always seem to play nice together. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #311,691 by pwhysall 7/24/09 12:31:24 PM Reply	synaptic is just a gui on top of apt-get... ...hence what apt-get sees and does, synaptic sees and does. It's fine to mix those, and I do.

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