Re: [PLUG] debian sarge hosed?

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@lrcressy.com>]

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Mike Leone wrote:

> Perhaps try just an "upgrade" first, before a "dist-upgrade".

I have found that dist-upgrade upgrades the libraries first and anything 
depending on the old libraries get marked for deleation.  This is like 
what happened to gnucash for a long time.

My suggestion is to do:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

There will be a list of items that are held back.

after the upgrade do
apt-get upgrade

sometimes after the first upgrade there will be more items that can be 
upgraded.  Most of the time though you just want to see the list of 
items that are held back.

Don't upgrade any libs, but you will see a number of packages that you use.

upgrade these first

apt-get install pkg-name

a lot of times a package will be split into separate packages causing 
dist-upgrade to remove the package.  apt-get install pkg-name will show 
you all of the dependencies that are required for the package.

Always check what is being removed!

This is a lot more slower than dist-upgrade, but it has saved my system 
on numerous occasions.
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