On 26-06-2021 11:45, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> 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

The right command is  apt full-upgrade.

The main difference between full-upgrade and upgrade is full-upgrade
also delete dependencies which are no longer used. I guess that the
older version apt-get dist-upgrade does do something similar.

Grtz

Nick