Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:07, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the
> only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be:
> set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print|
> sed 's@.*/@@;s/_.*//'`; apt-get install $@

There's a *really* handy package in sarge/sid called apt-show-versions.

So, you can do:
# aptitude update
# aptitude -d upgrade
# for v in \
     `apt-show-versions | sort |grep upgradeable|cut -d \/ -f 1`;
do
    echo '#=======================================';
    echo '#';
    echo '#==    '$v;
    echo '#';
    echo aptitude install $v ;
done 

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