apt-get upgrade

[Michael Havens]

This is interesting:
A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by
following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the
package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected
for install. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by
following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the
distribution or the Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable).

So is this saying you don't need the PPA to install the latest version but
can instead do:
<package>=<version>
?????

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> what he said, Was typing it up based on http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Todd Millecam <tyggna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Any packages that don't have a newer version in the repo that you
>> currently have installed.  What it actually installs is entirely determined
>> by your distribution (guessing you're running Ubuntu since it's common and
>> uses aptitude), so the guys in charge of Ubuntu determine what does and
>> doesn't get upgraded with that command.  apt-get upgrade will, in fact
>> upgrade your kernel if there is a kernel package in your repo.  Also, some
>> distros will even download firmware packages and install them (but usually
>> not the bios).  Also, without running an update there's no way to know if
>> there are any new packages.
>> If you want an explicit list of what it will upgrade, type in:
>> apt-get --just-list upgrade
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> what doesn't 'apt-get upgrade' uhhhhh,.. what doesn't it upgrade?
>>> 1- the kernel
>>> 2- the BIOS (which doesn't really count since it isn't part of the OS)
>>> 3- ?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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