On 08-Dec-2000 Bek Oberin wrote: > Arlen Carlson wrote: >> completed. Personally I've cron'ed my system to go online by itself every >> night and do its updates for a brief period of time overnight (or even >> apt-get >> new items if I so desire at that time as well). > > How do you set it to do stuff you decided you wanted that was > new? I'd be interested to see that. > > > bekj > > -- As for installing new items (i.e. above and beyond the normal apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade), I would have to know that a particular new (or old but uninstalled) package exists that I desire to download and install. Then I would simply add a "apt-get install newpackagename to my cron-based script.
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