..and 2 not upgraded.

[Colin Law]

On 9 February 2013 15:04, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 10:22 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> sudo apt-get update
>>
>> and it will tell you which packages can be updated, then
>
> No it won't.  That just updates the system's understanding of which
> packages are available, but doesn't print out which packages are out of
> date.

I see that is correct.  I usually do
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
and misinterpreted what messages were on the end of the update as
opposed to the start of the dist-upgrade

Thanks for the correction

Colin

>
> If you want to know what would be done to upgrade your system without
> doing it, us the "-s" option with dist-upgrade:
>
>         sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade
>
> Cheers!
>
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