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I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" on my netbook once. It ate up the entire 1 GB of RAM and got OOM killed before it could finish computing dependencies. I shouldn

by jff 15y ago

I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" on my netbook once. It ate up the entire 1 GB of RAM and got OOM killed before it could finish computing dependencies. I shouldn't need a swap partition just to update packages. So now I use apt-get if I'm upgrading a lot of packages at once. aptitude for other tasks.