Re: difficulties updating Etch

[Preston Boyington <preston.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington <preston.lists@xxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
> > actually you can do:
> >
> > apt-get <install or dist-upgrade> --dry-run
> >
> > and it will show you exactly what will happen.  since i have started  
> > using aptitude for my package manager i now try to use:
> >
> > aptitude --simulate install foo
> >
> > of course all this is done with the 'sudo' command.
>
>   There's no need to run "aptitude -s" as a superuser, and I would
> recommend against it in order to avoid accidental slipups...


whoops, i meant all _installs_ done with the sudo command.  i got ahead 
of myself.


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