The Great Package Management Experiment [LWN.net]

The Great Package Management Experiment

Posted Sep 25, 2003 21:47 UTC (Thu) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050)
In reply to: The Great Package Management Experiment by gjmarter
Parent article: The Great Package Management Experiment

He did the apt-get update before installing mplayer already. ;)

Seriously though, these days you can also use e.g. feta -u dist-upgrade, and it does everything in one step, including invoking sudo or your favourite root wrapper if necessary.

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