<quote who="Gareth Smith"> > Ian Wienand wrote: > >Does it do something that gaim doesn't? > > > I tryed #apt-get update but it didn't seem to do much but I did some > more reading and I'm gonna try #apt-get -u upgrade to upgrade all my > packages. > I haven't tryed gaim, but I'll try it. I thought gaim was only for AOL > messanger not msn
'apt-get update' just fetches an updated list of available packages, so that when you run any of the other apt commands, it's working off the latest listings. To actually fetch update packages and install them you'd use either apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade. The difference is in the logic the 2 commands use to pick the set of things to upgrade. dist-upgrade is allowed to install new packages to bring things up to date, 'upgrade' on its own will only install new versions of already installed packages. Gaim's biggest virtue is that it supports simultaneously connecting to multiple protocols and accounts. It can talk icq/aim, msn, jabber, yahoo, irc and others. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
