On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > Giving Debian a whirl now. > [cut] > > yum update This becomes "apt-get update" in debian. > > or: > > yum install package_name apt-get install package_name > > To find a package I also frequently do something like this: > > yum list available |grep abr_package_name This is either "apt-cache search abr_package_name" to look for prospective packages or "dpkg -l abr_package_name" to show the state of packages on your system. [cut] > > Now on Centos when I do 'yum update' after a fresh install I usually > get offered a good number of patches etc. When I do 'apt-get update' > I seem to get nothing. Is your sources.list now empty? Having commented out the CD-ROM, you may need to uncomment one of the other 'deb' lines there. You probably want something of the form: deb http://http.XX.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib (where XX is your country code) > > So are there really no patches available or am I doing something > wrong? How do I get it too download and install new packages with > apt-get or whatever rather then using the CD? The other alternative is that you only have something like the above in your sources.list. Debian stable is, as it says, in a stable state. That is, the operating system is released and then will remain in a frozen state until a so called 'point release' (like a service pack). If you want regular updates, you should look into either Debian's 'stable-updates' service[1] or switch to the testing distribution. Testing consists of a fairly stable system, but a moving target. It is strongly recommended that a server runs stable software, of course. > > Is there a FAQ or something out there for users coming from CentOS to Debian? > > Thanks. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates
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