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Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development
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Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development

by Jamie Cameron
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
28h 15m
English
Pearson
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12.5. Updating on Debian Linux

If you are running Debian Linux, at the bottom of the main page of the module there will be a form headed Upgrade All Packages. This form has three options, which are:

Resynchronize package list If this option is set to Yes, the Debian package repository will be queried to retrieve the latest list of packages available for download. This should be done before any upgrade, so that your system knows which URLs to download from when installing packages from the APT repository.

The actual command used to synchronize the package list is apt-get update.

Perform distribution upgrade When this option is set to Yes, your Debian system will be upgraded to the latest distribution release when the form is submitted. With the ...

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