Wanted to make sure I had all the latest Security & installed applications updates. Based on some recent threads on this list it looked like Aptitude was the tool to use. I'm a total newbie ... downloaded and successfully installed my very first Debian OS a month of so ago and thought I should try and make sure I have all the latest updates ... my preference is for using a GUI and not command line and so I have been using Gnome ... I logged in as usual opened a terminal window typed "aptitude" for the very first time ... read what I thought I needed to from the online manual ... I hit a "u" to make sure I had the latest list of available updates ... made sure the cursor was on "Security Updates" then hit "g" to install the updates ... it showed me a list of updates and I hit "g" again to install the updates ... after it download many many many things and asked me many questions and gave some dire warnings, to which I accepted whatever default presented itself ... I rebooted and now no gnome and when I type it at a command line I get an error saying that it can't find gnome .... aaaaggghh! Now it looks like I'll have to re-install the OS ... aaaggghh ...!!! What is the simplest and easiest way to make sure that I keep everything update? Help, Jan
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