apt-get upgrade

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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- ?
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>
>> Stephen
>>
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