On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 10:25:58 AM UTC-7, David Beach wrote: > > For future newbies such as me: Is it necessary to do anything after > executing the install? I ended using an 'sudo apt-get update' (and maybe > even a restart!) because things didn't work as planned - because of my > typos. And I seem to remember reading somewhere that after doing some/all > installs that you had to do something to let the system somehow register it > had a new program installed. Anyway, after my muddling/typos, your command > did what I needed. > >> >>> In general, you do 'apt-get update' to have your system catch up to which packages are available in the online software repositories, then 'apt-get upgrade' to install whatever new packages might be available. There should be nothing required to 'register it had a new program installed' although it's always a good idea to consider a reboot just to ensure that the system will come back fine when you take a power hit at 3am some holiday when you're 2000 miles away from home.....
But it's not Windows. You shouldn't have to reboot often or hardly ever. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
