Re: Apt Question

Matthew Dunaway wrote, on 12/21/2005 11:21 AM:
> 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?

There are sometimes minor variations in packages as they are prepared
by the package maintainers. These changes usually have revision
suffixes beyond those of the app itself (like 1.2.10_1, in this case).

-royce

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