On Vi, 26 sep 14, 16:35:15, Harry Putnam wrote: > The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > > >> But here.... After finishing the post you quote above... I again > >> ran `aptitude full-upgrade' (this is minutes ago) And there were no > >> packages shown and nothing was done. > > > > When did you last run 'apt-get update' or similar? > > Bingo... last upd was last week. But running it just now, followed by > full-upgrade got me a new bash version.
You should *always* run 'apt-get update' (or equivalent) before any install/upgrade/dist-upgrade runs. If you're machine is fully upgraded, i.e. 'apt-get upgrade' returns something like # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. running any kind of upgrade/dist-upgrade command is pointless, because your apt can't know there are new (versions of) packages on the mirrors. If your machine is not fully up-to-date or you want to install something without running 'update' first you will probably get in strange situations where your apt is trying to download packages (versions) that don't exits on your mirrors (anymore). You have to run 'update' first, so that apt has fresh lists of packages. Did I mention you should run 'apt-get update' before running other apt commands? Ok, you don't really need it for remove/purge, but it doesn't hurt either. So don't forget to run 'apt-get update' before install/upgrade or dist-upgrade. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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