To upgrade is to replace a piece of hardware or software with a better, and usually newer, version or component.
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Tips for making software updates automatic in OpenSuse (zypper)
I'm currently working in a command line only environment.
I would like to perform daily updates automatically using zypper, however I can't find a good way to do it. By good I mean clean and simple.
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How to keep track of installed software
Every now and then I'm in need of updating a software running on one of our testservers at work (mostly Debian). What really confuses me almost every time is the fact that there is not just one way to ...
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Not enough space on / to install new kernel update
During a recent update I received this:
Installing: kernel-default-2.6.37.6-0.11.1 [error]
Installation of kernel-default-2.6.37.6-0.11.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. ...
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Is it normal that a restart is required to mount USB after a kernel upgrade?
Sometimes I see the Linux kernel being mentioned in the list of upgrades, when running pacman -Syu (updating my packages in Arch Linux). Whenever this happens, after installation of the packages, I ...
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Automatic security updates on Debian squeeze server
For a production Debian squeeze server, what are the best practices or recommendations for handling security updates? I have seen various articles on cron-apt, apticron, unattended-updates, apt cron ...
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Every time I run Azureus it wants to restart because of an upgrade
I am using Fedora 16. Every time I run Azureus, it says that it just completed an important update and needs to restart. How can I fix this? Obviously restarting it is not helping.
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How to make svn look for if there is an update once a minute and if there is call some script?
I am developing a server app. I have a remote machine with Debian that I use for testing. Currently I update the server manually when each new svn version comes out. It is just a testing server and ...
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What is a Transaction Check Error ? (yum update)
I tried today to replace packages from atomiccorp's repositories with newer packages from the epel/remi repositories and received Transaction Check Errors.
I cannot proceed with my update.
Install ...
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Can sources.list only be updated by hand?
I'm currently running Linux Mint. I remember that under Ubuntu, whenever a new release comes out, it prompts you with a choice of whether to upgrade or not. It seems like this is not happening in ...
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Upgrading curl in Centos 5.6
There is any easy way to upgrade the default curl 7.15 to the 7.20 or 7.21 version? Any repository to install into YUM.
Edit: I found this repository with the last version
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Obtaining Solaris 10 patches
I have a Solaris 10 server. I've been trying to find from where I can download patches/updates.
The specific bug I'm running into (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6551484) is ...
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“Digest verification failed” when updating system
When I run sudo zypper update:
Overall download size: 134.1 MiB. After the operation, additional 5.7 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Automatically agreeing with java-1_6_0-sun-devel ...
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Linux Centos 5.5 yum update command is not working
I have done lots of things to update.
yum clean all
yum clean metadata
yum clean dbcache
then yum update outputs:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/addons/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] ...
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Managing and applying custom updates to multiple identical machines
I work at a library where we have just recently setup 5 kiosk's based on linuxmint.
The hardware is identical. I actually used DD to make an image after I set the first one up.
My Problem is, I now ...
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Package managers Update versus Upgrade?
sudo zypper update
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
amarok bluedevil choqok cln digikam digikam-lang GeoIP gstreamer-0_10 gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs ...
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How to block yum from upgrading obsoleted package?
Is there any way to prevent yum from upgrading a package obsoleted by another?
I have created a custom repo containing some packages, among them openh323-devel. In current versions of CentOS, ...
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How to sort updates based on release date on debian testing?
I'm a user of linux mint debian linux distro which is based on debian testing. Debian testing is a rolling release distro. The testing nature of this distro cause some package updates to be buggy. I'm ...
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Upgrading ffmpeg
How can I upgrade ffmpeg to version 0.6 on debian-based operating system?
I'm using apt-get for installation and deb packages.
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Updates/applications/packages for Ubuntu 10.10 with no internet connection
I recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 (i.e 2h ago :D) from ISO CD.
All went smoothly but now I have an issue. I don't have a network connection.
I do not mean that there is a configuration ...
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How to update boost of OpenSuse 11.4 to boost version 1.46?
I have 64 bit OpenSuse 11.4 and has boost 1.44. I'm trying to update boost to version 1.46 through 1-Click install of OpenSuse's site.
However I'm getting a lot of errors about it's repositories ...
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Problems with apt-get upgrade on Debian (404 Not Found)
I can't update my Debian Sid system.
on running the apt-get upgrade I am getting:
maciej@wladyslawa:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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X problems on Fedora 15
I just upgraded from F13 to F15 using the Installation DVD and it looked all went fine. When I first booted into F15, gdm was having troubles starting up. I tried removing Xorg and reinstalled and ...
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FreeBSD: Getting pkg_add to use stable packages rather than release packages?
Using FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. I want to use the latest binary packages rather than the packages at the time of the 8.2 release. That is, I want to use packages in ...
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Updating FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.1 (methods and policy)
I have 8.0-RELEASE-p4 + few ports installed. I wonder wheather I should update to 8.1.
How long is 8.0 supported?
How to update the system? I couldn't find anything about it in handbook.
SOLUTION ...
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Is there a downside to ksplice?
ksplice is an open source extension of the Linux kernel which allows system administrators to apply security patches to a running kernel without having to reboot the operating system. (From ...
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What I can I do to make the transition to some new computer hardware safe and smooth?
I normally use machine A, and I make backups of A onto a fileserver B.
Sooner or later, I will lose machine A for one reason or another.
Its hard drive wears out, or it gets hit by lightening, or some ...
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Holding left arrow triggers permanent Mode_switch
This is a weird one... I recently upgraded from Debian lenny to squeeze (following the upgrade instructions step by step). Everything went surprisingly well, except for one piece of strange new ...
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How do I enable a new repository in CentOS?
I need to upgrade my version of subversion however, simply running yum update subversion tells me:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading
mirror speeds from cached hostfile *
addons: ...
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How to have the Bookmarks toolbar show up on Firefox 4?
I've upgraded Firefox from 3 to 4 beta8. My Bookmarks toolbar has disappeared and I can't find the option to make it appear again.
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How to update Puppy Linux?
A month or two ago, I installed the latest version of Puppy Linux to an old Eee PC which I hardly use any more. Well I'm on it now! But I can't figure out how to update it.
It uses a weird Puppy ...
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Converting syslog-ng 3.0? format to 3.2 format
Just rebooted my system to this warning
:: Starting Syslog-NG [BUSY]
WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, please update ...
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Ubuntu postfix installation error: trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/validlocale', which is also in package libc-bin 0:2.10.1-0ubuntu18
I am trying to install Postfix on Ubuntu 10.04 using command sudo apt-get install postfix but there comes error as shown below:
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 164023 files and ...
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What are you going to do with your OpenSolaris machines?
I have a file server running OpenSolaris (mainly for ZFS, which I really love), but since Oracle has abandoned it, I'm starting to think about what I'm going to do with the OS on that machine. ...
