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Miko
Asked: 2010-03-28 16:15:40 +0800 CST

Is "aptitude full-upgrade" safe to run on a new server?

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Is it safe to run this command on a brand new Debian server?

aptitude -y full-upgrade

The command is from http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/?StackScriptID=1

On a related note, how is aptitude update different from apt-get update?

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    Of course it's safe; what's the risk? If the server's brand new, you have no data to lose, and no services to get complaints about.

    From the aptitude manpage:

    full-upgrade

    Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version, removing or installing packages as necessary. This command is less conservative than safe-upgrade and thus more likely to perform unwanted actions. However, it is capable of upgrading packages that safe-upgrade cannot upgrade.

    Note
    This command was originally named dist-upgrade for historical reasons, and aptitude still recognizes dist-upgrade as a synonym for full-upgrade.

    Generally speaking, it's fine. The difference between apt and aptitude the algorithm for dependency solvers. Eventually you can expect apt-get to be replaced underneath by aptitude, when it's improved to the point where it's better than apt-get in every case.

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