restore with rsync or fix window manager

[Michael Havens]

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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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 that will leave your system more and more out of date.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 very strange state where it up to date in some places and out of date in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.
>
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