Upgrade??

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melwarn

Beginner

Posts: 1

Location: US-OH

Thursday, March 10th 2005, 6:04pm

Upgrade??

Hi - new user. Just got my Linux box a couple of months ago and as such am learning, learning learning. I'm sure I don't have to say what a treat it is to be learning on Linux rather than suffering on MS....

So - my question is this...I'm sure I'm strongly in need of software upgrades, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Currently, I'm am using Kopete 0.8.0 in KDE 3.1.4 - as I look at available upgrades, I see KDE 3.2, etc etc.

Do I need to download each upgrade and install, or can I go to the latest version and use that one instead?

Help would be appreciated as I'm navigating the system. Thanks much - Melissa

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anda_skoa

Professional

Posts: 1,273

Location: Graz, Austria

Occupation: Software Developer

Thursday, March 10th 2005, 6:21pm

Preferred upgrade methods really depend on your distribution.

Usually they have some kind of update tool that gets a list of newly available packages and installs the one you select, including downloading them

Cheers,
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Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User

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Ilici

Beginner

Posts: 8

Tuesday, March 29th 2005, 11:08am

What distibution are you using?

RedHat based distros have Yum and Autoupdate and Debian based have apt.

If you have a debian based distro all you have to do is open a shell and << su -c "apt-get upgrade" >>

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