If that is so we don't need to add PPAs to our systems. IN other words PPAs are just a way to make it so that we are always running the latest version of the package regardless of if it works whereas we choose what we want to run with:

<package>=<version>

That is very Linuxy of them!

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

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@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@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@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- ?

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