On 22/01/17 08:54, Brian May via luv-main wrote:
Peter Ross via luv-main <[email protected]> writes:
thanks. I did already. I used the GUI (and should never do this
again;-) but realized it does not do the "apt-get update" behind the
scenes.
The GUI should do this by itself, I believe, because it is there to
allow the inexperienced user to keep his system secure without needing
to use the terminal.
Yes, the GUI should do this. You might need to click a button or select
a menu option first however to trigger it. Synaptic Package Manager, for
example, has a big Reload button that looks like it should do the update
operation.
There are multiple GUIs out there, you haven't said which one you are
using.
You will find many people use the command line, so that will the only
one they are familiar with.
The Reload is indeed needed before you can do anything useful.
Of course you may need to use the low level tools to load synaptic in
the first place,
like on a RaspPi.
As an occasion Debian user I find that synaptic is useful to get an
overall view of what is already loaded, and what might be available of
interest.
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