apt-get vs. Ubuntu Update Manager

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:52:45 -0700, Shawn Christopher
<schristopheraz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
> >>This afternoon after reading all the E-mail about sound disapearing I
> >>decided I wanted to break my system so I was going to do an apt-get
> >>dist-upgrade however it came back as nothing needed to be upgraded. OK,
> >>fair enough then I ran the Ubuntu Update Manager and it came up with
> >>alot of updates. What is the difference? Shouldn't both of them read
> >>from the same sources list?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >did you do a "apt-get update" before your dist=upgrade?     I suspect
> >the update manager did one for you, thus finding all these new
> >updates.
> >
> >
> >
> Well I am new at this whole Linux thing. So I know how to do a few
> things. The whole Apt process is something that I am just fumbling
> through right now. I assumed a apt-get dist-upgrade would already do
> that. It seems that would be a logical thing. Then again this is me.

Yeah, I assumed the same when I first started using apt. But you have
to do an apt-get update first. I was also told you should do an
apt-get upgrade also befroe a dist-upgrade, not sure how true that
part is.

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> Shawn
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