Guys,
I am new to Debian but not so to Linux. I have studied the documentation, and there seems to be multiple ways to install debian packages. This I understand and am happily adding new packages as and when I need them (using apt-get install <package name> and dselect).
However, how should I be keeping Debian up to date to the latest stable release and also with the latest security patches? I am kind of looking for a 'redhat network' or 'windows update' equivalent.
Is simply 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' as root sufficient?
Are the packages verified that they are indeed a genuine debian update?
If so, how to I check the current 'version' that I am running and also that it is the 'current' version.
Kind regards,
Adam Barton.
Output of 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'
blueboy:~# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release Hit http://www.mirror.ac.uk stable/main Packages Hit http://www.mirror.ac.uk stable/main Release Hit http://www.mirror.ac.uk stable/non-free Packages Hit http://www.mirror.ac.uk stable/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. blueboy:~#
My sources.list file
blueboy:~# cat !$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main non-free
blueboy:~#
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