• ragas@lemmy.ml
      31·
      4 months 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.)
      • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, I used to use -U but I prefer -N personally. I like the system to be consistent with what it would be from a fresh build.

  • pewpew@feddit.it
    5·
    4 months ago

    That’s because you have to use

    apt

    , not apt-get. Yes, there is a difference

    • Valso@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      I don’t see much of a difference between the two. That’s why now I’m uninstalling everything I use everyday and put them back as “portable” variants - downloaded as tarballs from their sites, github, or downloaded from Arch’s archive. Already did that with Telegram, Pinta and the browser, soon Audacious will meet the same fate cuz for some reason it uses GTK2, not GTK3 as it should. Plus, having them as tarballs means I can have better versions than those in mint’s repo.

      Too bad that pacman can’t be used on Mint, that would be awesome!

    • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Yep. I’m on Debian for many years now. Every broken update I can recall was either caused by an undocumented PPA or nvidia drivers (which have finally been fixed, for my card at least)

  • Consti@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

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

  • Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml
    7·
    4 months 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
      6·
      4 months 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.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Did you decide to use that instead of the normal distro package manager or is there a distro which actually only has pkcon for the CLI?

      • Björn@swg-empire.de
        3·
        4 months ago

        Nah, I just wanted to toss it in. I kinda want to get used to it, but I always fall back to the native managers.

        But I was pleasantly surprised by pkcon (through Discover) being able to do proper system updates on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It used to be discouraged to use it for system updates.

        • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Ah, fair enough. Yeah, I kind of have the same problem that I forget about it. I have to use Ubuntu at work and APT is confusing in many ways, so I keep meaning to try pkcon instead, but I still have to do so…

  • visnudeva@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    Using bluefin or bazzite it is automatic in the background and I don’t need to click anywhere or enter any command, I don’t even need to open the terminal.