good morning Di Mär 05 09:09:36 2013 thank You for help > 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 * Question: How often do I have to say: Sudo? The dist-upgrade option only makes sense when you have changed the repository sources to the newer release of Xubuntu. * This I do not understand. I am using here Xubuntu now 13.04 Until there was Pangoline there was an Update Center so I could update 12.4 to 12.10 then 13.04 but now there is no update center. There is an orange button offering: show update install updates look for updates start synaptic Is the button right to use: install updates or look for updates ? > 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. * Sorry my question was: Why are there so many updates. Example. Every 9 days I do now update siducion and xubuntu. Most times 30 minutes and more is working the update. Hundreds of files are downloaded and installed. So the producers of Linux do so much work to update Kernel or what else? Because there is a lot of new software every week. Does update also update Gimp Firefox and all the other tools? Have a look at: $ view /var/lib/dpkg/status * Thank You. Regards Sophie ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
