Re: Apt Question

Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed apt-get for suse 10. I did the apt-get update to get all the
> latest packages.
> I then tried apt-get upgrade. It gave me a list of about 400 packages to
> be upgraded.
> Out of curiosity I checked to see what version of xmms I had. I have
> version 1.2.10.
> I then went to the xmms website and the latest version is 1.2.10, the
> same as what I have now.
> Why would apt want to upgrade xmms when I already have the latest
> version??? Do you think the other 400+
> packages on my computer are the latest versions and there are no
> upgrades available?
>
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My 17 year-old says to check two things:
        1) are there more than 3 sets of revision digits?
        2) are you looking at bleeding edge stuff?

Check your /etc/apt/sources.list for suse-people and also suse-projects
You may-ormay-not want to draw from them :-))

My son uses SuperSuSE, and tries all the bleeding edge stuff.
He has me about convinced that it is maybe the easiest way to go.
The trick is to know what stuff exists in different source groupings.

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Received on Wed Dec 21 16:37:11 2005