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Author: o1bigtenor
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To: Patrick Bartek
CC: Devuan ML, Alessandro Vesely
Subject: Re: [DNG] USB mount problem
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 6:10 PM Patrick Bartek via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:34:32 +0200
> Alessandro Vesely via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > On Tue 15/Jun/2021 20:41:09 +0200 Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
> > >
> > > I have found that each desktop uses its own method of automounting.
> > > PCManFM may have the mounting code built-in. Or it may use udiskie.
> > > Check PCManFM's dependencies and see if udiskie is listed. Did you
> > > install udiskie yourself? If not, then some other app did and it's
> > > probably needed. If it's not causing problems, leave it be.
> >
> >
> > Right. For spacefm it is udevil.
> >
> > Curiously, spacefm was mounting smoothly until yesterday, on chimaera
> > + openbox. After I did a system upgrade, I couldn't mount an USB key
> > any more, until I manually installed udevil. What happened,
> > dependency changes?
>
> This is one of the "gotchas" that can happen when running an "in
> development" version. As far as why it happen: could be a number of
> things. Most of the time, it's because a dependency, like udevil to
> spacefm, become mismatched version-wise. That is, udevil has become
> "too old" to work with spacefm, and the upgrade process uninstalls it.
> Try "full-grade" instead of just "upgrade" to get the newer version of
> the dependencies when "upgrading." In fact, this is the recommended
> procedure when running an "in development" or testing version.
>


Please - - - not understanding the command(s) suggested.
I usually use :
# apt update
# apt upgrade

so you're suggesting the use of
# apt update
# apt full-grade
or is that
# apt full-upgrade    ?


TIA