On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:41:14AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500: > > > What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade > > doesn't do anything? Thanks! > > >None of the packages you have installed have candidates for update. > > Then why did it get something? tnx
`apt-get update' looks for updates for *all* packages, not just the ones you have installed. It does this by checking if there is a more recent list of packages on one of the servers mentioned in your /etc/apt/sources.list. In your case there was indeed a new list, so that list was fetched. So: `apt-get update' didn't get any packages, just a list. After that, `apt-get upgrade' uses that list to check if there is a more recent version available for one of your installed packages. In this case apparantly no new versions were available for you; there were only updates available for packages that you don't have installed, so no packages need to be downloaded. Your system is already up to date. -- Maurits van Rees | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
