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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