Re: apt strangeness

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

        Apt maintains a totally separate database of packages. As you
 have noticed, in order to use dselect, and apt, you need to 
 a) make sure that apt is the selected method in dselect [A]ccess 
 b) # dselect update
 c) # dselect select
 d) optionally, 
    # apt-get -m dist-upgrade (does more dependency checking than the
                               next command, but may not honour packages
                               held back, and does not know about
                               changes made in step c)
    # apt-get -m dselect-upgrade (I use apt-get rather than dselct
                                  since I can use the -m option)
    

        I rarely use dist-upgrade, unless it has been a while since my
 last upgrade, and large numbers of packages may have to be upgraded.
 

        Umm, I generally follow unstable, most of the time.

        manoj
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