Re: new to debian...
An simple
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
should do all. Also there is no need to call apt first with a -d option
and then again with the same comand, but without the -d option. apt-get
allways downloads all files needed and after that installs them, whereby
the net-connection isn't needed anymore.
Martin
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
> [...]
>
> I'm on a slow connection so I'm using the -d option with apt-get.
> Should I run all of the above (starting with dist-upgrade) first with
> the -d option and then run them again without to do the final
> install? e.g.
>
> apt-get -d dist-upgrade
> apt-get -d upgrade
> apt-get -d dselect-upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> Or, would it be more like this:
>
> apt-get -d dist-upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get -d upgrade
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get -d dselect-upgrade
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
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