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Partially Dist-upgrade from CLI?

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Sometimes a sudo aptitude upgrade fails and sudo aptitude upgrade --full-resolver then wants to remove about 100 Packages, because of "dependecy conflicts".

Often I can then start update-manager and it offers me a "Teilweise Systemaktualisierung" (roughly "partially distribution upgrade"), when I run this then all packages are updated and it does this without removing any packages in most cases.

Since I want to avoid using graphical tools for this kind of stuff, my question is: is there a way to start the "partially dist-upgrade" via command line? Prefferably with aptitude?

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answered 1 Year ago bjecterless · Accepted Answer

I generally also dist-upgrade by default. And when it wants to remove crazy amounts of packages, I either say no repeatedly until it comes up with a sane solution, or I switch to aptitude upgrade.

Aptitude's interactive mode can also be a handy way to get around complex conflict situations (just run aptitude to launch it.)

Sometimes apt-get comes up with better solutions by default (in apt-get one doesn't get the chance to reject solutions).