apt-get upgrade vs synaptic

[Stephen Partington]

As a result of this i usually run an apt-get update/upgrade after i
successfully complete one just to make sure i didn't miss anything (might
as well while i am there)

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> The package system works by copying the database of available software
> from the server to your computer.  At that moment all your packaging
> software knows about is what is in it's local copy of the database.
>
> You probably did one upgrade in synaptic based on a slightly older version
> of the package database, and when that was done you got a fresh copy of the
> database and were then able to upgrade to all the changes that were made
> during the time between the first and second time you downloaded the
> database.
>
> It's also possible that there were simply new programs added while you
> were doing the first upgrade.  There is so much software in the
> repositories that it's extremely likely they are any moment something you
> have loaded is getting updated.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 04/01/2015 10:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> yeah. but why did apt-get upgrade it after I had already upgraded
>> with synaptic?
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:07 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jmcphe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> the update refreshes your package cache.  that would mean there were
>> changes between the last time and this time you updated the cache.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> you know, I merrily did an upgrade with synaptic and the little icon
>> by the clock showed that all was well. for some reason I decided to
>> run 'apt-get update' 'apt-get upgrade' and more files upgraded.
>> why?? :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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