Jaunty updates not ready, fixed
Cybe R. Wizard
cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 13 12:49:04 UTC 2009
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> said:
> Aptitude Update used by (sudo aptitude update) does something
> to my computer, I think. According to man aptitude, it Updates the
> list of available packages from the apt sources. And this list is
> stored on my computer. This I was not aware of.
>
> Aptitude safe-upgrade installs the latest version of the
> available updates and is safer than asking for a full-upgrade.
>
> I find that man aptitude is quite a good reference. And the
> sequential use of Update and then Safe-upgrade makes a lot of sense,
> and in my case it worked.
>
> It appears my Beta version of Jaunty is updated to the latest
> versions it has on the mirrors. Thanks all who helped me do it.
>
> Karl
I'm glad you finally got it scoped out and working, Karl.
Cybe R. Wizard
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