Re: Listing of packages to upgrade
On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 05:43, Jens Kubieziel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when doing an upgrade to newer versions I see a listing of which packages
> will be installed and which will be removed, like:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> alsaplayer alsaplayer-alsa alsaplayer-common alsaplayer-esd
> [...]
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> bonobo-activation chipcard-tools dictionaries-common g++-3.2 gconf2
> [...]
> 131 packages upgraded, 44 newly installed, 11 to remove and 1 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 78.1MB of archives. After unpacking 35.7MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> Can I find somewhere a listing of those 131 packages which will be
> upgraded?
# apt-get update
# apt-show-versions | grep upgradeable
It shows the current on-disk version and what it can be upgraded to.
As for what would be removed, as others have said, the "-s" flags
is for an apt-get simulation.
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