Installing tar.gz files

[Avi Greenbury]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:36:10 +0530
Jatin Davey <daveyjatin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On similar lines , i want to make sure on updating the entire ubuntu 
> system via the command line :
> 
> The command : sudo apt-get update
> 
> Will this update the entire ubuntu including all the installed
> softwares ?

No. This will update the list that apt-get uses to decide what software
is up to date.


	sudo apt-get upgrade
will upgrade the software, according to the list generated by apt-get
update. The ubuntu update daemon runs apt-get update daily IIRC, so
there's no real need to run it first, but it doesn't do any harm.

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