shouldn't apt-get upgrade, you know, upgrade ?
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From: briand on 6 Apr 2010 00:40 Hi all, I was having some problems with ooffice so I did "apt-get update" and then ran "apt-get upgrade" to see if ooffice was among the packages to be upgraded. It wasn't, but I tried "apt-get install ooffice" anyway, and presto it started upgrading ooffice. So I looked at the man-page: upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system I did, in fact, have ooffice installed so I'm not clean on why upgrade alone did seem to want to upgrade the package. Any ideas ? Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100405213737.0656411a(a)windy.deldotd.com
From: Johan Grönqvist on 6 Apr 2010 01:00 briand(a)aracnet.com skrev: > I was having some problems with ooffice so I did "apt-get update" and > then ran "apt-get upgrade" to see if ooffice was among the packages to > be upgraded. It wasn't, but I tried "apt-get install ooffice" > anyway, and presto it started upgrading ooffice. > > So I looked at the man-page: > > upgrade > is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently > installed on the system > > I did, in fact, have ooffice installed so I'm not clean on why upgrade > alone did seem to want to upgrade the package. > > Any ideas ? > My first guess: Perhaps you did not quote enough text from the man page? [From the text on upgrade] New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. As ooffice is a rather complex package, it seems plausible to me that a new version would require other packages to be installed as well, and upgrade is not bold enough to do that. I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hpeeit$r0a$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Brian Ryans on 6 Apr 2010 01:20 Quoting Johan Grönqvist on 2010-04-05 23:50:37: > > I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead. Now called full-upgrade (though dist-upgrade remains for backcompat). upgrade is now safe-upgrade. -- _ Brian Ryans 8B2A 54C4 E275 8CFD 8A7D 5D0B 0AD0 B014 C112 13D0 . ( ) ICQ UIN: 43190205 | Mail/MSN/Jabber: BrianLRyans(a)gmail.com ..: X ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML mail and v-cards: asciiribbon.org / \ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
From: Sven Joachim on 6 Apr 2010 01:30 On 2010-04-06 07:12 +0200, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting Johan Gr�nqvist on 2010-04-05 23:50:37: >> >> I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead. > > Now called full-upgrade (though dist-upgrade remains for backcompat). > upgrade is now safe-upgrade. This is true for aptitude but not for apt-get. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sk79kv51.fsf(a)turtle.gmx.de
From: briand on 6 Apr 2010 09:40
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:50:37 +0200 Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > My first guess: > > Perhaps you did not quote enough text from the man page? > > [From the text on upgrade] > > New versions of > currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded > without changing the install status of another package will be left > at their current version. > That was a very good guess. > > > As ooffice is a rather complex package, it seems plausible to me that > a new version would require other packages to be installed as well, > and upgrade is not bold enough to do that. it does seem plausible, doesn't it ? :-) > > I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead. > I thought of that, but I thought it was for going from stable to testing, or a similar sort of thing. The man page tells all ! dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; Thank You, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100406063454.706fd3bd(a)windy.deldotd.com |