Is an update really an update?

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Is an update really an update? - kikaida - 2004-09-20

So, dinking around with my system last night I go through the motions of trying to update things and it appears as if I'm good to go. Am I correct in assuming that there are various ways of going about the same things as far as updates are concerned or am I missing something here.

I went through the process of apt-get update, and let that do it's thing.

I also installed Synaptic and ran through its processes and grabbed a whole bunch more updates.

Now I'm reading up on YUM.....Am I chasing my tail here or is this yet another updater that needs to be ran?

Is an update really an update? - anyweb - 2004-09-21

apt-get is more than enough,

to update your system properly with apt-get do as follows

Code:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

the apt-get update bit merely updates the 'list' of available updates

the && tells linux to execute the next command

the apt-get upgrade -y tells linux to upgrade all available updates listed for apt-get and the -y tells it 'yes go ahead'

please try it

also, to upgrade your KERNEL using apt-get do as follows

Code:
apt-get update && apt-get install kernel

that will list a whole bunch of kernels, pick the latest one that matches your hardware

cheers

anyweb

Is an update really an update? - kikaida - 2004-09-21

Great, thanks much! ;)