On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:38:34 +0000
Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:
> * john lewis (johnlewis@???) wrote:
> <snip>
> > The reason I ask is that I installed Sidux (a debian sid +kde
> > based distro) on the spare system a few weeks back and the guy
> > who set the distro up seems to be a bit paranoid about using
> > apt-get rather than aptitude.
> >
> > He evens says never upgrade from within X window and that an
> > upgrade should only be done from a text console, logging in as
> > root and going to init 3 before attempting to upgrade.
> <snip>
>
> I may have this wrong, but I seem to remember that the predecessor
> of aptitude was not very good. The recommendation at the time was to
> use apt-get.
>
> I am also sure that upgrading from a terminal was recommended so
> that X could be upgraded without any danger of things falling over.
>
> This was a number of years ago, and things have probably changed.
>
> <Flame-Bait>
> Any sensible person will now be running Ubuntu, and can simply click
> on an icon to have all updates installed without having to think
> about it at all :-)
> </Flame-Bait>
and my reply to that is the same word Hugo used
:-P
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John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package
