[ale] just installed LibreOffice in Linux, should have been easier

[Preston Boyington]

it's the commandline system update and it strings the two commands 
together.  i got into the habit of using Aptitude years ago and still 
use it most of the time.  the only difference is when i do it "apt-get" 
is replaced with "aptitude" (holdover from a time when apt-get didn't 
handle packages as well as aptitude did).

Peppermint has an update manager (runs in the tray) that works well for 
most things, but it doesn't do a dist-upgrade.  for that you have to go 
to the commandline and issue the commands manually.  i suspect it's 
similar for Ubuntu (Peppermint is based off of Linux Mint which is based 
on Ubuntu).

I'm still not a big Synaptic fan, but can see where it would be 
appealing for others.

Ron Frazier wrote:
> Could you explain what that does? Are you saying enter both commands on 
> the same line like you typed it?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 
> On 03/15/2011 01:22 PM, JD wrote:
>> Perhaps I'm crazy, but I always do
>>
>> sudo apt-get update&&   sudo apt-get upgrade
>>
>>
>> together before installing any new packages.  This keeps all the
>> underlying packages current - that could be the issue you are seeing
>> between the different systems.  In real-time programming, this is known
>> as data homogeneity.  All the data on a specific thread/priority cannot
>> be changed by outside priorities until the thread/priority finishes.
>> Basically, you get consistent data before you begin processing.
>>
>> I do agree that not doing the "upgrade" should work provided you aren't
>> too out of date with patches. I've just never wanted to test that.
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