Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:08:45PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: is there an equivalent for 'apt-get update' 
> (checking for updates without actually installing them)?

"apt-get update" doesn't check for updates without actually installing them: it
updates the local cache of package information.

There is no real yum equivalent for "apt-get update": nearly all yum commands
perform a package info cache update before running (which is why it can be very
slow).

"yum check-update" will update the local package cache and tell you which
installed packages could be updated.


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Jon Dowland