Installing tar.gz files

[Jatin Davey]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> 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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> Avi Greenbury
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>   
Thanks Avi.

Thanks
Jatin