On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Alan Dayley wrote:
> 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.
Netscape 4.8. I haven't tried with Konqueror yet. I suspect it's because I
don't have some plug-in or other.
> > 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 for
> which the package repository has newer versions, ie. a list of the packages
> it wants to upgrade. It then asks to proceed. If you only wanted the list,
> just say no to the question. Then, to upgrade selected packages from the
> list, type them in the command line like this:
>
> apt-get upgrade package1 package2 package3 [etc.]
>
> Not to hard.
That sounds like exactly what I'm looking for.
>
> There is also a GNOME based GUI front end to apt-get called synaptic. It
> looks pretty nice but I had some problems with version 0.42 on my Red Hat
> Linux 9 box that I have not tracked down yet. There is a newer version out
> that I have not yet tried that is supposed to directly address the issues I
> saw when I tried it. Maybe it will work well for you.
Red Hat's GUI has given me fits ever since I phased out 6.0 and installed
7.1.
Thanks for the information.
--
Bob Holtzman
"It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids
around with power tools."
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