apt-get upgrade

[Michael Havens]

is it true about my speculation?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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