On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:02, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, George Gambill wrote:
> 
> > Now, maybe you could explain to me why "apt-get install samba" worked
> > while "apt-get upgrade" didn't?
> 
> In the previous email, you mentioned "packages have been kept back".
> 
> This means these packages may cause some potential problems if updated.
> 
> You could probably work-around that by doing "apt-get update
> PACKAGE-NAME-HERE".
> 
> Or "apt-get dist-upgrade" could have done it too, but that could have
> update many other things too.
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apt-get update #updates list of packages from your sources.list
               #thus if you alter your sources.list, you then
               #need to run this command. This command however, 
               #by itself, doesn't update anything other than
               #the list of packages itself.

apt-get install 'package_name' will install a package.

apt-get upgrade #will update all packages that have been updated
                #since previous install

apt-get dist-upgrade #best to read the man pages on this one.

In fact, the man pages describe it better than I have.

Craig

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