Re: [Sheflug] Debian -- Upgrade Etch => Lenny

[Chris Butler <chrisb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:59:51PM +0100, Chris J wrote:
> However I've gandered at the thread refereced below, and it suggests
> running "aptitude update". Which I have now done and "apt-get install dpkg
> apt" now works.
> 
> Is there any difference between "apt-get update" and "aptitude update"?
> Either way, I'll file it away somewhere to check both.
> 
> Next -- dist upgrade: I'll google for whether apt-get or aptitude is the
> best way to go, although suggestions on a postcard welcome :-)

I tend to use aptitude these days, it does seem to be a bit smarter than
plain old apt-get. Plus aptitude tracks packages that are automatically
installed (for dependencies) and removes them when they're no longer
required.

I think most of aptitude's extra functionality was going to be merged into
apt-get, but I'm not sure how much of that actually happened for Lenny.

-- 
Chris

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