On 06/06/11 at 06:52pm, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote: > > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > > Giving Debian a whirl now. > > Having made a desultary attempt in teh other direction, I feel your pain. :-( > > [snip] > > In Centos when I want to update or add a package I do this: > > > > yum update > > There is an important and fundamental difference between yum update and > apt-get update. Yum update, as you say, applies patches. Apt-get update > just updates the database of packages on your computer. (I think that yum > simply doesn't do this at all.) The equivalent of yum update is apt-get > full-upgrade - but you must run apt-get update first, or you won't get > anything new. That will apply patches. Incorrect, yum installs full packages and is indeed quite similar to apt. I'm also not familiar with the command `apt-get full-upgrade`. The reason apt is not showing any 'patches' is because you must have the latest version of all your software, or apt is not configured correctly. -- Liam
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