Thread: apt-get dist-upgrade error
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2008-07-31 , 09:57
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#19
Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
apt-get dist-upgrade is typically only necessary on a desktop linux to download and upgrade core system packages .. usually to upgrade to a newer "distribution".. hence the dist-upgrade...
This isn't entirely true, as apt-get upgrade will always stop upgrading a package the moment this package requires additional, not-already-installed packages (e.g. the upgrade needs some new additional library). For those cases you must either

a) use apt-get install <package> explicitly, this will upgrade the package with its new required additional packages, or

b) use dist-upgrade. Otherwise those packages which now require more additional packages will just sit there forever (marked as 'The following packages have been kept back:'

this isn't something you just run to run for no other reason than to run it..
On this I agree completely though. And particularly with the tablet.
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