I had an issue with list.sources file. Now that's resolved and I'm wondering how can I make sure that it's safe to apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade the system?s2:/var# aptitude upgradeResolving dependencies...open: 4669; closed: 6206; defer: 0; conflict: 0                                  ^CThis was stalling and casued a problem until I fixed the sources.list file. New sources file:s2:/etc/apt# cat sources.listdeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-freedeb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-freedeb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-freedeb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-freedeb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-freedeb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-freeapt-get update and upgrade now works and I get thisapt-get upgradeReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information... DoneCalculating upgrade... (skip list of packages)The following packages will be upgraded:(skip list of packages)214 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.Need to get 117 MB of archives.After this operation, 8,295 kB of additional disk space will be used.Do you want to continue? [Y/n]How can I make sure this its safe to proceed?System info, if it helps:s2:/etc/apt# uname -aLinux ns2 3.2.0-4-powerpc #1 Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 ppc GNU/Linuxns2:/etc/apt# cat /etc/issueDebian GNU/Linux 8 \n \l
apt-get upgrade stalls
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Do this first:apt-get-f installNow carry on with the apt-get update and upgrade. Honestly not much can go wrong.