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On Thursday 06 November 2003 09:33 pm, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > Goto freshrpms.net and download the RPM enabled apt-get.  Then, you can
> > run updates based on several RPM repositories.  They seem to keep them
> > pretty "up2date" and follow the security patches well.  I use it to
> > maintain my older RH 7.3 boxes.
>
> That site doesn't display properly for me.

What browser are you using?  That surprises me.

> Is there a way to automatically tell which patches to install without
> checking to see exactly what is installed on your box? That feature is one
> of the things I liked best about Red Hat.

Once you have apt-get, you can do these two commands:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

The second one will list all the packages that it found on your computer fo=
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which the package repository has newer versions, ie. a list of the packages=
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it wants to upgrade.  It then asks to proceed.  If you only wanted the list=
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just say no to the question.  Then, to upgrade selected packages from the=20
list, type them in the command line like this:

apt-get upgrade package1 package2 package3 [etc.]

Not to hard.

There is also a GNOME based GUI front end to apt-get called synaptic.  It=20
looks pretty nice but I had some problems with version 0.42 on my Red Hat=20
Linux 9 box that I have not tracked down yet.  There is a newer version out=
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that I have not yet tried that is supposed to directly address the issues I=
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saw when I tried it.  Maybe it will work well for you.

Alan
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