Do Mär 07 17:51:16 2013
Good afternoon.
Thank You for help.
> How often do I have to say: Sudo?
>
You have to say sudo every time you want execute a command with root
permissions.
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OK.
Personally, I don't use sudo, but switch to ROOT user instead.
That would be:
$ su -
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Using Siduction
there I use su.
It is no problem
to write sudo with every command.
> The dist-upgrade option only makes sense when you have changed the
> repository sources to the newer release of Xubuntu.
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> This I do not understand.
> I am using here Xubuntu now 13.04
Which version do you want to upgrade to?
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I want to update during Octobre 2013 13.04 to 13.10.
There is time to learn it.
It seems you're using a pre-release version, as the new (X)Ubuntu
13.04 won't come out until sometime in April this year.
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This is funny.
I did update
I wanted to change 12.4 to 12.10 but then there is now
13.04.
Did I do something wrong?
> Until there was Pangoline there was an Update Center
> so I could update
> 12.4 to 12.10 then 13.04
> but now there is no update center.
> There is an orange button
> offering:
> show update
> install updates
> look for updates
> start synaptic
>
> Is the button right to use:
> install updates
> or
> look for updates
> ?
In case you want to update your system and install new package versions
do "look for updates" first (This should execute the command 'sudo
apt-get update') and then "install updates" ('sudo apt-get upgrade')
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Thank You.
I think you can do a dist-upgrade with Synaptic, but I don't use that,
prefer the commandline by now, so I'm not sure.
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I prefer the terminal.
>
> > Second question:
> > What does update do?
>
> Update contacts the servers configured in your repository list (Files in
> /etc/apt/apt.conf) and looks whether any new packages or newer versions
> are available. It updates the file
> '/var/lib/dpkg/status' with the package lists found on the servers. That
> is important since apt will only let you search for and install new
> packages when it can find them in the local file.
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> Sorry
> my question was:
> Why are there so many updates.
> Example.
> Every 9 days I do now update
> siduction and xubuntu.
> Most times 30 minutes and more is working the update.
> Hundreds of files are downloaded and installed.
> So the producers of Linux do so much work to update
> Kernel or what else?
> Because there is a lot of new software every week.
> Does update also update Gimp Firefox and all the other tools?
>
>From the distance is hard to diagnose why your updating takes so long.
But, updating/upgrading Siduction only every 9 days means that a lot of
packages will get upgraded and thus have to be downloaded, so no wonder.
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YES
But I am interested
what the producers of Linux do.
Is there during one week so much to update.
This is not a technical question
I am just interested in this.
It's based on Debian Unstable, and when I had Debian Unstable installed
here I did an update/upgrade every day. So as to quicken up the process.
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Thank You.
An Upgrade will get you newer version of Firefox or Gimp, say, when a
newer version is available in the repositories. If not, then no. With
most Linux distributions you are dependent on what the repositories
provide and if there is not latest Firefox available for your Ubuntu
version then bad luck. Although for Ubuntu there is option of PPAs
(Personal Package Archives) which in some cases give you access to newer
package versions.
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Thank You.
Regards
Sophie
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