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Help and Support => Archives => wattOS R10 => Topic started by: drizzt on November 27, 2016, 02:18:17 PM
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Hi.
i am wondering about updates - a number of other distros have an updater software which shows a notification if there are updates available to install, and then when launched will show a list of updates. Hope that makes sense?
What is the equivalent (or similar) of that in wattos, or i guess pretty much any other (debian based) distros? Is it the same thing as doing a apt-get upgrade? Or the "Mark All Upgrades" in synaptic? Or in synaptic, "Status" and "Installed (upgradable)" maybe?
I like the idea how the list of updates are also categorised, like critical security, recommended, etc. That way i can just update the most important first in case i don't have time to do all at that moment.
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Hi drizzt, and welcome to the wattOS forums :)
I do not run the Microwatt editon, but the LXDE/OpenBox edition of watttOS. The first thing I always do when I start the pc is to run an update. I start a terminal and do;
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
etc...
It works well and I do not need to be irritated by some "software & updates" that suddenly pop up when I am in the middle of something else. You can of course use synaptic for your upgrades if you prefer that. But since I do not run Microwatt myself I can not answer your question if there are any "update manager" there.
Have fun with your Microwatt. :)
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thanks blaze! I've tried many distros and have never been as happy with them as microwatt, though mainly due to performance but really the whole package - as i've only got a tiny EeePC Seashell netbook. it's a keeper for me - a big thank you to biff and the whole team.
still new and learning... the most familair aspect of gnu/linux is installation... :-[
and thanks for your reply to my post. :)
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Just my pleasure drizzt, I hope the installation went well. :) Oh when I`m at it, here below is a link to links about i3. Just in case ;D
http://planetwatt.com/newforum/index.php?topic=965.0