Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-18 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:41:32 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:08:15 -0400 > Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade [package]'; you >> can only do 'apt-get upgrade' >> Snip > Note to self:

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 20:15, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > * Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 00:49]: > > try "apt-get moo" > > then "aptitude moo" > > then "aptitude moo -v" > > then "aptitude moo -vv" > > and so on > > Now that was funny! So it isn't super cow powers, but at least

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 00:49]: > try "apt-get moo" > then "aptitude moo" > then "aptitude moo -v" > then "aptitude moo -vv" > and so on Now that was funny! - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:08:15 -0400 Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade > [package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter > of which upgrades *all* packages on your machine. See the > manpage for apt-get(8): Whoops! You

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/14/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wow...here's a silly one for the archives. On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote: > In addition, the command "aptitude" is now recommended in place of > "apt-get". The aptitude program handles package dependencies better > th

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:46:04PM -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > apt-get upgrade > will upgrade a package if it is already installed in your system and an > upgrade is available. I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade [package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter of w

Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Wow...here's a silly one for the archives. On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote: > In addition, the command "aptitude" is now recommended in place of > "apt-get". The aptitude program handles package dependencies better > than the apt-get program. When you do apt-get --help, at th

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:00:19 -0400 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the > package is not already installed, I would not want it to be > installed. Is this possible? > > Currently when I use > > apt-get install > > a

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:00:19PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is > not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? There's probably a nice prepackaged way to do it, but you could firs

upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? Currently when I use apt-get install apt-get does not distinguish between whether the package has already been installed or not. Is there