• Consti@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Of course it won’t do anything, you need to update (refresh the index) before you upgrade (download and install updates), silly you

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 hours ago

    until a pacman update breaks your system because you didn’t read the release notes telling you it needed manual intervention beforehand 🤣

    • ragas@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 hours ago

      sudo emerge -avuDUg world

      –changed-use, -U:

      • Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags have changed since installation. This option also implies the –selective option. Unlike –newuse, the –changed-use option does not trigger reinstallation when flags that the user has not enabled are added or removed.

      –getbinpkg [ y | n ], -g:

      • Using the server and location defined in PORTAGE_BINHOST (see make.conf(5)), portage will download the information from each binary package found and it will use that information to help build the dependency list. This option implies -k. (Use -gK for binary-only merging.)
  • Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml
    9·
    12 hours ago

    Using Debian as my main laptop distro, I am usually an arch user but figured with it being a light weight laptop I wouldn’t need arch, its been fine but installing updates can be frustrating, after a few weeks gnomes appstore breaks, then I need to use terminal to apt update, apt --fix-broken install.

    • Hirom@beehaw.org
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Which Debian distribution are you using, stable, testing, unstable?

      I take care of a couple machines for family members. Those have Debian stable with automatic update (unattended-upgrade). I can’t recall the system or packages ever breaking. At most users are a bit confused when an update change the UI a bit.

      Sticking to stable and avoiding third party repos gives a pretty solid system. Only developers or sysadmins might consider Debian testing. Only people working on Debian itself should use unstable.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
    29·
    16 hours ago

    Debian users:

    What do you mean by PPA?

    Also: apt-get is intended as low-level APT interface for scripts, just use apt instead. I get why people are confused nowadays, because APT documentation is terrible.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
      5·
      12 hours ago

      apt-get is intended as low-level APT interface for scripts

      Ah, that’s what they call it now. I wonder to what they degraded dpkg then?

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        Isn’t dpkg just the program that installs DEB files, without handling dependency resolution?

    • notarobot@lemmy.zip
      2·
      11 hours ago

      I thought apt-get was a transitional command made so that the devs could make a breaking change, but now that that is done, its no longer needed

    • Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago
      nix flake update
nix flake check --no-build
git commit -a
nh os switch

      Is the routine I’ve settled into. Flake update because I use flakes, flake check because it’s easier to see any warnings about deprecated options and the like so I can fix them preemptively, git commit after the check to avoid back-to back commits where the second is fixing some issue with the first, and nh because I like the pretty dependency graph and progress bar.

    • Cat_Daddy [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      zypper is unironically the best package manager. Absolute s-tier god-mode. It’s slow as hell, but that’s because it makes atomic updates. If the install doesn’t go well, it just rolls it back. I fucking love zypper, and I want to shake the hands of the people responsible for it.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    761·
    21 hours ago

    And yet I’ve never had an apt upgrade break my whole system.