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Debian 9 no new updates

#1 Post by silvi.kolumcaj »

Hello guys,
I have a problem on my desktop running Debian 9 with Gnome. I have not received any new package updates in over 1 month. I run apt clean all && apt update and I still get no new updates and this has been going for over 1 month. Any ideas what is wrong?

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#3 Post by silvi.kolumcaj »

I have those lists my sources but still no updates

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#4 Post by arochester »

Can you copy and paste your sources list here, so we can look at it, please?

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#5 Post by Bloom »

Running apt update only refreshes your packages list but doesn't do any actual updates.

You need to add apt upgrade and even apt dist-upgrade to perform an actual package update.

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apt update && apt upgrade && apt dist-upgrade
For Debian 9, you could even do it without the system stopping and asking for permission:

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apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt -y dist-upgrade
I wouldn't recommend that for Debian Testing or Debian Sid.

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#6 Post by silvi.kolumcaj »

arochester wrote:Can you copy and paste your sources list here, so we can look at it, please?
yes I will send them later

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#7 Post by silvi.kolumcaj »

Bloom wrote:Running apt update only refreshes your packages list but doesn't do any actual updates.

You need to add apt upgrade and even apt dist-upgrade to perform an actual package update.

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apt update && apt upgrade && apt dist-upgrade
For Debian 9, you could even do it without the system stopping and asking for permission:

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apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt -y dist-upgrade
I wouldn't recommend that for Debian Testing or Debian Sid.
I also do that, but after I run apt update than apt list --upgradable shows 0 new updates

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#8 Post by silvi.kolumcaj »

arochester wrote:Can you copy and paste your sources list here, so we can look at it, please?

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#deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

deb [arch=amd64] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src [arch=amd64] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

deb [arch=amd64] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src [arch=amd64] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free

deb [arch=amd64] http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src [arch=amd64] http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free



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#9 Post by Bulkley »

To begin with, Debian Stable does not get regular updates. It does get security fixes as needed. It does not get upgrades. (Yes there was one notable exception due to a mistake.) Consequently, all one needs to do is:

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apt update && apt upgrade
Of course, do it as root. su and root password.

As to sources, most of us do not need source packages so the deb-src lines can be #'d out. Also, it is unlikely that you will get any changes to your contrib and non-free packages so you can # those too.

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#10 Post by silvi.kolumcaj »

Bulkley wrote:To begin with, Debian Stable does not get regular updates. It does get security fixes as needed. It does not get upgrades. (Yes there was one notable exception due to a mistake.) Consequently, all one needs to do is:

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apt update && apt upgrade
Of course, do it as root. su and root password.

As to sources, most of us do not need source packages so the deb-src lines can be #'d out. Also, it is unlikely that you will get any changes to your contrib and non-free packages so you can # those too.
Ok thanks, it just seemed strange to me that I haven received any updates in more than one month

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#11 Post by arochester »

As others have said, Stable does not get many updates - because it is Stable.

Your sources list does not too bad. But why...
1) The top line refers to "it" Italy and the other lines refer to the US Where is your location?
2) Do you need multiarch? For what purpose?
Arch-qualifying deb-src lines doesn't make any sense.
https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO
3) Security only has main. There are no contrib and non-free

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#12 Post by pylkko »

Bloom wrote:
For Debian 9, you could even do it without the system stopping and asking for permission:
Also, if you are using GNOME as a desktop environment, according to the Debian wiki, unattended updates is installed by default
https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades wrote:As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and apt-listchanges packages are installed by default and upgrades are enabled with the GNOME desktop. Rudimentary configuration is accessible via the "Software & Updates" application

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#13 Post by sunrat »

silvi.kolumcaj wrote:Ok thanks, it just seemed strange to me that I haven received any updates in more than one month
There have been a few security upgrades in the last month. I maintain a record of them here, just copy/paste from the security mailing list - http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index ... 37&st=1350

It will help to run apt update && apt upgrade and post here what output shows from your console.
pylkko wrote:Also, if you are using GNOME as a desktop environment, according to the Debian wiki, unattended updates is installed by default
I imagine there would be a logfile for that.
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#14 Post by linuxsat »

Hi,
I had the same question with kde/debian. Finally it seems that this behavior is normal for the 'stable' version.
Some usefull comments are in the thread http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=135397

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#15 Post by None1975 »

Hold on, guys. According [SUA 132-1] Upcoming Debian 9 Update (9.3). An update to Debian 9 is scheduled for Saturday, December 9th, 2017. As
of now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in "stretch-proposed-updates", which is carried by all official mirrors. Same goes to Debian Jessie (8.10).
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#16 Post by pylkko »

There are two ways to get security patches on Debian, either as a collection with the point release, which are published about every two months, or one by one as they come by adding the repository for this to apt. Either way you will eventually get all the same security fixes.

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