On Monday 21 September 2015 16:59:40 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I've read all the other helpful feedback you received. Are you > interested in taking control of the process manually via terminal? I > learned a COOL command that was originally shared by *Bob* who > coincidentally responded to this thread. > > Am sharing here in case it's of interest to anyone checking out your > thread. The package you download is "apt-show-versions". > > If you then run "apt-get update" and next "apt-show-versions -u", you > receive output of any packages that need upgrading. If there's no > output, everything in your system is current. There are other flags > (options) you can run, but so far that "-u" is all I've ever needed. > > You have to run both commands each time. "apt-show-versions" performs > its package version comparison walk through our systems based on both > what is sitting on our systems and what our personal *_CHOICE_* of > repositories is offering at any given second. BUT.. That doesn't > happen magically/automatically, it's triggered manually in this case. > The only way that happens is if we run "apt-get update" first to keep > that command's associated files current, as well.
Alternatively, you can just do "aptitude update", and it will tell you what upgrades are available when it has finished updating. ;-) If it doesn't tell you, it means that there aren't any. Lisi
