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Author: Michael Havens
Date:  
Old-Topics: Buttons in mozilla prefrences
New-Topics: apt-get upgrade~What happens if you become disconnected while in process?
Subject: apt-get update
What does this download? I would think that it would download a file with a
list of files and their version number. Right? Then when you run apt-get
upgrade it would compare that list with a list of files on your system and
download those files that differ. BUT NO! I run apt-get update and it
downloads a bunch of files that I am not sure what they contain. And then
apt-get upgrade downloads the files again (because I don't know what the
first file it downloaded was). So what exactly does apt-get update give you?
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<:-)~MIKE~(-:>