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Re: How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?



You could run it "dry" once with apt-get -s...

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Richard Cobbe wrote:

>Hello, all.
>
>While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a
>list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it
>actually does anything.  I'm a little unsure how to do this, though.  Based
>on the manpage, I added
>
>    APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
>
>to /etc/apt/apt.conf, but this didn't seem to have any effect.
>
>What's happening here?
>
>ii  apt            0.3.19         Advanced front-end for dpkg
>
>Thanks,
>
>Richard
>
>
>

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