Re: [LUG] More Raspberry woes.

From: Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, 17 March 2013, 17:32
Subject: Re: [LUG] More Raspberry woes.

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Ian Smith wrote:

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>> *From:* Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> *To:* "list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, 17 March 2013, 13:38
>> *Subject:* Re: [LUG] More Raspberry woes.
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, JOHN DAVEY wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, last night I visited the Raspberry site where it reccomended I do
>> an "sudo apt-get update" ans a "sudo apt-get upgrade" , now it won't
>> boot into a graphical invironment. What have I done wrong ?
>>
>> It's often a 3-stage process:
>>
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get upgrade
>> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> I would recommend the sequence:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get clean
>
> the latter will empty the package cache, so you shouldn't run out of space in future. upgrade and dist-upgrade are redundant; use one or the other. You can google the difference or just take my work for it ;)

dist-upgrade may install new packages while upgrade won't.

Raspbian is Debian Tetsing and as such new packages are still occasionally being added to the base distribution. Especially things like the kernel, the GPU drivers and firmware.

Most of the time upgrade is fine, but you do need a dist-upgrade from the stock supplied raspbian. I would never advocate using dist-upgrade as a matter of course - as one day you'll find your nice working setup suddenly breaking as you dist upgrade from stable to ... stable. and the new stable is now what was testing...

Gordon

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OK, Sounds like good advise, thanks for helping me...
Jon