<div dir="ltr">that sounds like good advice! it makes a lot of sense. So then.... I will no longer do apt-get install upgade but only dist-upgrade.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The packages on your system were already in a bad state when I
recommended you do that. While the dist-upgrade might have lead to
some of your computers symptoms, it was not the ultimate cause of
your problems.<br>
One thing that could happen with a dist-upgrade that won't happen
with a plain upgrade in that it can remove (and add) packages in
order to make your system completely up to date. You shouldn't ever
have a problem, but under very rare circumstances, the system will
try to uninstall important packages that make your system run.
Usually after you've done something weird to your system, or when
you've installed someone's PPA who doesn't know what they are doing
with dependencies.<br>
I'd suggest that you need to run dist-upgrade more often, not less
or not at all. On all my systems, I ONLY do dist-upgrade, I can't
even remember the last time I did a simple upgrade. Running it more
often will keep your system more up to date and put all the
necessary packages on your system for the software to work correctly
rather than putting a subset of packages that will leave your system
more and more out of date.<br>
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Think about it this way. A piece of software has a security problem
or wants to add features and the fix is to add in a new library that
does something that fixes the problem. If you just do an upgrade
then apt will not upgrade that piece of software at all because it
would require it to also install an additional package{s). Now if
there are other pieces of software that say they want a certain
version of the first program in order to satisfy their dependencies
those also won't get upgraded. Do this over and over and before too
long you have system where your desktop is in a very strange state
where it up to date in some places and out of date in others.<br>
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It's best just to keep it completely up to date in the first place
with dist-upgrade.<br>
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Brian Cluff<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 01/09/2016 04:49 AM, Michael Havens
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<div dir="ltr">You were oh so right Brian. I had changed the
window manager in / home. Now whenever I restore root nothing is
fixed. I will NEVER do a dist-upgrade again. Everytime I have my
system crashes! Now I am trying to restore my home directory
which was created with rsync. The exact command was:<br>
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rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk<br>
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What would the command be to restore My home directory. I figure
it is easier to restore home (which I had just recently update)
than to fix the window manager.<br clear="all">
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