To upgrade is to replace a piece of hardware or software with a better, and usually newer, version or component.
Questions tagged [upgrade]
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How can I update to a newer version of Git using apt-get?
I've just set up a new machine with Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 and then run
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install git
Now if I run git --version it tells me I have git version 1.7.5.4 but on my local machine I have the much newer git version…
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Why is 'ls' suddenly wrapping items with spaces in single quotes?
I just noticed that on one of my machines (running Debian Sid) whenever I type ls any file name with spaces has single quotes surrounding it.
I immediately checked my aliases, only to find them intact.
wyatt@debian630:~/testdir$ ls
'test 1.txt' …
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In CentOS, what is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade?
What is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade, and when should I use one over the other?
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What does "The following packages have been kept back" mean?
When doing an apt-get upgrade I sometimes get a message saying "The following packages have been kept back". For example:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading…
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Ubuntu update error: "waiting for unattended-upgr to exit"
I'm unable to update my system having two installations of Ubuntu: One is version 16.04 and the other version is 17.04. In both, I'm getting the same error.
For ex., in Ubuntu 16.04, I run software updater and get the result as shown below.
I did…
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Can I rollback an apt-get upgrade if something goes wrong?
Is there a way, before starting an aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade, to set up something so that you can "easily" rollback your system to the "apt" state it was before the actual upgrade, if something goes wrong?
That is, for example, reinstall…
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How do I upgrade all of my installed packages in OpenWRT?
I'm just wondering what is the equivalent of
apt-get upgrade
apt upgrade
yum update
with OpenWRT or LEDE?
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Full-upgrade to Debian testing fails due to libc6-dev : Breaks: libgcc-8-dev
I've just switched to bullseye (see sources below)
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib…
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How to update glibc to 2.14 in CentOS 6.5
I want to install Android NDK on my CentOS 6.5 machine. But when I ran the program, it says it needs glibc 2.14 to be able to run. My CentOS 6.5 only has Glibc 2.12 installed. So I tried to update glibc by:
$ sudo yum update glibc
But after that I…
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What do the characters y/d/N mean?
When I am updating my system, the machine tells me the size of the packages to download and asks me:
is this ok: [y/d/N]?
I know the meaning of y (yes) and N (no), but don't know what d stands for. Can someone please explain it to me?
Note: In case…
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yum update fails: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository …
I'm using CentOS 6.3. When I try to update my system with yum I have this message:
yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.ircam.fr
* centosplus: miroir.univ-paris13.fr
* extras:…
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What's going to be new in bash 5
I was just going through the official bash repository(I don't usually do this) for something unrelated but noticed that bash 5 was already in beta. I was just curious about what's going to be new in bash 5 but couldn't find any information. Can…
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How does the Linux kernel update itself?
How does kernel updates itself while it's running without breaking anything in the process?
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Where to find logs/information about unattended-upgrades (apt)?
Where can I find infos about when the unattend updates/upgrades run and what ist done (or IF something was done)?
I want to enable the unattended-upgrades (for security updates) on a debian virtual server and, yeah, on my RaspberryPi, too.
Do I have…
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How is it possible to do a live update while a program is running?
I wonder how killer applications such as Thunderbird or Firefox can be updated via the system's package manager while they are still running. What happens with the old code while they are being updated? What do I have to do when I want to write a…
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