

It carries out metadata searching and dependency resolution for packages. Typically stable distros only ever push updates to versions where the last digit only changes so you should never see any changes on a particular version of a distro. Overview The Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) is a high-level package management tool for the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives. When the first digit changes, you can expect everything to break. The big server distros like RHEL kinda take this to the extreme, that's why there are still production systems out there with a 2.6 kernel. if the second digit increments then it might have new features or something, but it should maintain full backwards compatibility with anything that has the same first digit. Typically (well recommended) ways of doing versining is x.x.x, if the last digit is incremented it should fix bugs, and otherwise, the user shouldn't be able to tell it changed. However this question goes for all distros. Read more by typing man apt, or from this link So, when you want just see list of updates in all Debian distros like ubuntu or mint, you need to run -dry-run argument. I always recommend a terminal and I see you using it.
#Sudo apt get update and upgrade install#
Below is my installation log of Gem5 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10, 32 bit, running in VirtualBox. Firstly run command which showing what will be update. Hello, I am attempting to get a full-system emulation using the ARM Ubuntu image from the wiki. Follow forums or any linux news which tell you how recently update/upgrade have an impact for your system. And I strongly don't recommend to use an automatic update. I would like to recommend to wait min.week with any updates/upgrades. Until the system have a seriously security hole. Probably you asking which one? For example, conflict with official Nvidia drivers. Remember that some upgrades make a mess with setup of your system.
