On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:40:19PM +0000, andy wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +0000, andy wrote: > > > >>What I was trying to get at in my original post was to see if there was a > >>way > >>of upgrading one's system by running a system-wide check which would then be > >>cross-referenced to the sources, leading to out-of-date libs, etc. being > >>identified for download. > >> > >>Thanks > >> > >> > >Hi Andy, > >when you update your local dpkg database, it only has the lastest data, > >as it creates a new one and does not save the old data. So there is no > >reference to 'out-of-date' anything. You can use deborphan or debfoster > >to 'trim the fat' once in a while, with caution. But just 'apt-get > >update' or similar is all you need. cheers, > >Kev > > > Kev, > > Thanks for your reply. I run apt-get update every couple of days or so, so > guess that I am > taking care of this already. If that's all there is to it, I must confess > that is about the > easiest way I have yet come across to keep one's software up-to-date. Again, > well done > developers! Nice job.
'apt-get update' will just update the package *list*. You still need to run 'apt-get update' (or dist-upgrade) to update the packages. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
