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. On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > 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. > 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. > 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 that will leave your system more and more out of date. > > 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 very strange state where it up to date in some places and out of date in 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. > > It's best just to keep it completely up to date in the first place with > dist-upgrade. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 01/09/2016 04:49 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > > 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: > > rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk > > 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. > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: