[DC LoCo] Updating outside the graphical Synaptic Package Manager

[Kevin Cole]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 16:50, Marti Martinson
<arthur.martinson at verizon.net> wrote:

> I used the graphical Synaptic Package Manager to install clamav and
> clamtk.
>
> I have:
>
>  clamav 0.96.1
>  clamav-base 0.96.1
>  clamav-freshclam 0.96.1
>  clamtk 4.25-1
>  libclamav6 0.96.1
>
> The clamtk interface site ( http://clamtk.sourceforge.net/ ) has
> announced this:
>
> "Ubuntu: If you just installed the latest Ubuntu, please install ClamTk
> from the repositories first, and THEN upgrade. This will ensure the
> clamav-freshclam apparmor profile magic takes place."
>
> I downloaded to my Desktop their .deb file.
>
> Updating OUTSIDE the GUI and repository via a .deb file is new for me.
>
> Can I just issue the following?
>
> sudo dpkg -i clamtk_4.27-1_all.deb

On the money. Yep.

> I "thought" I could double-click the icon, too.

This should work as well.  On my systems it's always started an
application that identifies it as a package, and offers to install it,
but I've never actually completed it that way.

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