On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:46:04PM -0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
> apt-get upgrade <packagename>
> will upgrade a package if it is already installed in your system and an
> upgrade is available.
I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade
[package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter
of which upgrades *all* packages on your machine. See the
manpage for apt-get(8):
upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are
currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed pack
ages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must
be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.
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