Re: Debian Questions on apt-get
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:39 -0500, Matt wrote:
> > remains that yum update installs things and apt-get update simply updates the
> > database. This caused me considerable confusion. I suggest that you check
> > this before telling me that I am incorrect in believing it.
>
> Doing:
>
> yum update
>
> Causes yum to check all installed packages including kernel and if
> there not up too date offer to download all updates.
>
> I gather in the apt-get world the equivalent is:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> I think anyway? Being used to yum I like there way better. ;-)
I'm a terminal emulation user, I e.g. prefer cd, ls etc. to file
managers, but IMO Synaptic, a GUI for the package management, often has
a lot of advantages, e.g. a history, searches and package descriptions
by mouse etc.. It's similar to Smart and far away from Yast.
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