Distribution Upgrade using aptitude

cccc · 07-19-2009, 05:24 PM

hi

What is the best aptitude command to upgrade Debian Distribution?
There are many upgrade commands and this is a bit confusing:

Code:

# aptitude upgrade
# aptitude safe-upgrade
# aptitude dist-upgrade
# aptitude full-upgrade

stress_junkie · 07-19-2009, 05:26 PM

Just don't do it. There are plenty of threads on this subject here on LQ. A fresh install is always a better choice.

XavierP · 07-19-2009, 05:28 PM

aptitude full-upgrade is the one I went with to upgrade Lenny to Squeeze. However, KDE4 has not been without it's issues. If possible, do a fresh install.

the trooper · 07-19-2009, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cccc

hi

What is the best aptitude command to upgrade Debian Distribution?
There are many upgrade commands and this is a bit confusing:

Code:

# aptitude upgrade
# aptitude safe-upgrade
# aptitude dist-upgrade
# aptitude full-upgrade

For a normal update use:

Code:

aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade

Or to upgrade from one release to another you can use:

Code:

aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade

If you are intending to go from one release to another it's worth reading the release notes or documentation.Sometimes it's advised to upgrade apt,aptitude and dpkg before running the aptitude full-upgrade command.

The commands aptitude upgrade and aptitude dist-upgrade were deprecacated for the ones used above.

AlucardZero · 07-19-2009, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stress_junkie

Just don't do it. There are plenty of threads on this subject here on LQ. A fresh install is always a better choice.

wtf? no. If you've ****ed things up, sure, but not normally.

"safe-upgrade" is the new term for "upgrade". It upgrades packages without removing any or adding any new ones.
"full-upgrade" is the new term for "dist-upgrade". It is allowed to add or remove packages while upgrading others.

craigevil · 07-19-2009, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stress_junkie
Just don't do it. There are plenty of threads on this subject here on LQ. A fresh install is always a better choice.

full-upgrade or dist-upgrade if your using apt-get works just fine, Debian isn't Ubuntu, going from one release to the next is usually very simple. The kde3>kde4 thing going from lenny>squeeze being the biggest issues lately. If your are using kde3 and plan on upgrading to testing you might want to try using smxi or remove kde3 then upgrade then install kde4.