Debian-newbie questions

Ilya Palagin IlyaPalagin-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 8 02:44:25 UTC 2003


waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:17:51PM -0400, Ilya Palagin wrote
> 
> 
>>I don't. Do you need xanim to watch video? If so, it's better to use 
>>xine or mplayer. Go to http://www.apt-get.org (one of the most wonderful 
>>Debian resources :-)) and search for these apps, look for "stable" 
>>packages, note the "deb" line for your /etc/apt/source.list in the 
>>search results. Don't forget to execute `apt-get update` after adding 
>>this line, then just apt-get mplayer or xine.
> 
> 
>   A general security question here; is there a way get a list of
> new/upgraded packages broken down by site?  Specifically, packages at
> security.debian.org.  Any way to list security updates only for packages
> that I have currently installed ?  "ls -al /var/lib/apt/lists" seems to
> be a possible beginning to this process.
> 
$apt-get dist-upgrade -s

this will simulate packages installation, just watch the stdout for the 
list of packages.

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