update or not?

[ssc1478]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:27 AM, william drescher
<william at techservsys.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/2011 11:28 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> All it means is that you need to restart the computer after a
>> previous upgrade, probably after upgrading the Kernel.
>>
>> Just open the Terminal and enter the following:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>>
>> enter the password when prompted to do so and enter at the
>> question (Y/n/q) - the capital Y means that is the default action
>> to be taken when you press the Enter key.
>>
>> That should clear those upgrades pending messages.
>>
>> Good Luck!
>>
>
> what is the difference between
> sudo apt-get update
> and
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> ?
>
> bill
>

This what I normally do:
# sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

To understand the distinction between upgrade and dselect-upgrade,
read this page:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get

I suspect that dselect-upgrade will allow those remaining packages to upgrade.

hth,
Phil


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