Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 nov 11, 18:01:53, Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Nov 2011 at 17:07:28 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? apt-get update followed by apt-get

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Nov 2011 at 22:34:52 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: That's quite a bold statement. The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss. (A proverb. Reputedly Arabic.) May we redirect all upgrade issues to you in the future? :p After all these years I

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:01:01 +, Brian wrote: The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss. And there I was, thinking it was the ability to play and visualise MIDI files ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Sian Mountbatten
From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? -- Sian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Andrew Wood
There should be an orange or red star shaped icon on the Gnome panel (bottom right of screen). click it then enter the root password when prompted. Sent from iPhone On 3 Nov 2011, at 17:07, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@operamail.com wrote: From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Nov 2011 at 17:07:28 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade Guaranteed to never fail. -- To

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Sian Mountbatten poenik...@operamail.com writes: From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? Find `update manager' in our menu system and click it to run updates. Other wise (Being in an X session is