I'm not exactly familiar how debian deals with security updates/patches.
Does "apt-get update" automatically install these updates/patches? A debian user I met said that that's all he does to "maintain" his system.
Also, there are a number of items listed in the Security Packages of aptitude most of them pertaining to linux kernel image. Do I have to install all of them?
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updating for security via aptitude
Re: updating for security via aptitude
No. All "apt-get update" does is to update what your machine reads off the sources lists. What you want is "apt-get dist-upgrade". However, I'm assuming a lot. There is a proceedure for doing only security upgrades, if you would rather, but I forget the one-line instruction.y2kdis wrote:Does "apt-get update" automatically install these updates/patches?
Do you have Synaptic? This is a GUI tool for those who want to look at what they are downloading.
To do security updates, you need to have a line in your sources list pointing to Debian's security upgrades repository. For Debian Testing, the line looks like this:
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
Yes. First go into your /etc/apt/sources list and comment out (put an # in front of) all the sources except security. Then do apt-get update and follow it with aptget upgrade. After doing this, set your sources list back to normal and do apt-get update again. There is a single line instruction for this but I can't find it.y2kdis wrote:No I don't have Synaptic on my system. I'm trying to learn the CLI way so I opted out the desktop environment. The proceedure for doing only security upgrades, would you remember if it is via "apt"?
i have this line on my sources.list
i assume that it only allows for the fetching of security updates/patches, but where do these updates go? will they be installed automatically or are they the ones that get listed in the Security Packages section of the main page of aptitude and i have to install them manually by selecting and downloading them?
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deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
su to root and do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. apt-get update will download a list of the lastest versions of all Debian packages. apt-get upgrade will examine all packages installed on your computer to determine if a newer version is available. If a newer version is available, apt-get upgrade will automatically download and install it.
Edit 1: Oops. I wrote update when I should have written upgrade.
Edit 1: Oops. I wrote update when I should have written upgrade.
Last edited by Harold on 2006-02-28 23:45, edited 1 time in total.
No, not automatically download and install when a new version is detected.Harold wrote:su to root and do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. apt-get update will download a list of the lastest versions of all Debian packages. apt-get upgrade will examine all packages installed on your computer to determine if a newer version is available. If a newer version is available, apt-get update will automatically download and install it.
The question is put.