Rob Canning said : > steve allen said : > > makerprofaze wrote: > >> I'm rather new to LInux, wondering what the process/command would be to > >> update 9.10 CD installed and running to include all the additional > >> apps/updates in 9.11 DVD? I've installed puredyne 9.10 from CD burnt on > >> this > >> Gateway M405 laptop, but it's CDRW/DVD isn't reading (any) burnt DVDs (from > >> my Win desktop - I may try to burn a DVD from a Macbook Pro). I was able to > >> make a live USB flash install from the puredyne 9.11 DVD.iso, but it would > >> give me an error at boot time saying something to the effect of 'Debian > >> cannot load this live image', I forget the rest. I haven't found any info > >> on > >> updating, though it would seem a simple matter (?) > >> > > ubuntu has an update manager, it tells you when to update etc, I presume > > this was not included in pure dyne as its not really needed, you just > > need to open up terminal and type sudo apt-get update
slight correction - update will just update the available package list what you want is sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade rob > > obviously it will ask for your password and then run through the update > > > also alot of the updates to puredyne 9.11 are quite cosmetic... > if there are additional packages that are in 9.11 you need just go: > sudo aptitude update > sudo aptitude install packagenamehere > > you can find a list of the new additions in the changelog: > http://lists.goto10.org/pipermail/puredyne/2010-April/003594.html > just replace packagenamehere with the package you want to install > you can also do a list : > sudo aptitude install packagenamehere packagenamehere packagenamehere > packagenamehere > > HTH > > rob > > > > > > > > > --- > > [email protected] > > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > > -------------- > [email protected] > rob.goto10.org > -------------- > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > -------------- [email protected] rob.goto10.org -------------- --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
