Re: Pse explain apt-get msg
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:41:14AM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500:
>
> > What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade
> > doesn't do anything? Thanks!
>
> >None of the packages you have installed have candidates for update.
>
> Then why did it get something? tnx
`apt-get update' looks for updates for *all* packages, not just the
ones you have installed. It does this by checking if there is a more
recent list of packages on one of the servers mentioned in your
/etc/apt/sources.list. In your case there was indeed a new list, so
that list was fetched. So: `apt-get update' didn't get any packages,
just a list.
After that, `apt-get upgrade' uses that list to check if there is a
more recent version available for one of your installed packages. In
this case apparantly no new versions were available for you; there
were only updates available for packages that you don't have
installed, so no packages need to be downloaded. Your system is
already up to date.
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