Applying updates

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 03:18:44PM -0500, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:

> What are we getting with this that we wouldn't get if we did not modify 
> /etc/apt/sources.list at all?
> 
> It was my (misunderstanding, apparently) that all we had to do is
> 
>    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> in a terminal window from time to time and we'd pick up all available 
> updates to all the packages we had installed, regardless of why the 
> packages were updated.

During installation, you are asked a question, whether or not you want to
download updates from the Internet.  If you answer "no", then the relevant
entries in sources.list are disabled by default.

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 - mdz