--- In [email protected], "highskywhy@..." <highskywhy@...> wrote:
>
> good afternoon
>
> How can I update Linux example
> Xubuntu
>
> sudo apt-get update && dist upgrade
You got the command a little bit wrong. It should read:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
The dist-upgrade option only makes sense when you have changed the repository
sources to the newer release of Xubuntu.
> Second question:
> What does update do?
Update contacts the servers configured in your repository list (Files in
/etc/apt/apt.conf) and looks whether any new packages or newer versions are
available. It updates the file
'/var/lib/dpkg/status' with the package lists found on the servers. That is
important since apt will only let you search for and install new packages when
it can find them in the local file.
Have a look at:
$ view /var/lib/dpkg/status
You will see that a lot of packages are listed along with their version number
and the
installation status, i.e. whether it is installed or not.
> Sometimes also Siduction is working 40 minutes and doing a lot of things.
> Is it so much to do the update?
I don't know why takes so long. When I was using Debian Unstable (Siduction is
based upon it) that didn't take my computer so much time,even if there are new
package versions added everyday. Sorry, can't help you here.
Pascal
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