[Fwd: Re: [Charlug] Upgrading old Ubuntu]

[Bob Evans]

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Peter Senft <peter.senft at hpss.de> wrote:
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> Hi Pierre,
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> Pierre Abbat wrote:
>> I'm not very familiar with aptitude; most of my package management I do with
>> adept, and if it crashes I use apt-get. How would I upgrade with aptitude?
>
> aptitude is usable as a command line utility like apt-get or with a
> curses interface when you start it without any parameters. It has about
> the same parameters as apt-cache and apt-get. So a simple aptitude
> update would update the repository and an aptitude dist-upgrade would
> dot the distribution upgrade. In terms of stability I would recommend to
> use apt-get or aptitude. adept sucks and is way too unstable.
>
>> And what exactly is do-release-upgrade doing?
>
> That's IMHO just a wrapper for the real update tool (apt) and part of
> the update-manager-core. AFAIK this thing is performing a dist-upgrade
> with a certain set of parameters. It can use python-apt or apt-get to do
> it.
>
>> By the way, could you use "reply to list" instead of "reply to all"? For some
>> reason, if charlug is in CC: instead of To:, I don't get a copy through the
>> list.
>
> Hmm... was that for me or Dennis? And... that's more for the list admin.
> Why is he not getting the mails, when we cc the list? I always do a
> reply to all and it seems that some people got my mails.
>
> cu hps
>
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