[SOLVED] apt: "108 packages can be upgraded".. How do I upgrade them?

stf92 · 07-05-2020, 06:14 PM

Code:

root@darkstar:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
108 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
root@darkstar:~# apt

Alright. 108 packages can be upgraded. How do I upgrade them? By hand, one by one? There must be a faster way. Is there?

agillator · 07-05-2020, 06:36 PM

You need to read the man apt page. The command you are looking for is

Code:

sudo apt upgrade

Everything that needs upgrading will be upgraded.

stf92 · 07-05-2020, 06:38 PM

Thanks a lot. I used 'apt dist-upgrade'.

stf92 · 07-05-2020, 07:03 PM

By the way. I installed build-essential. But I look for binutils and don't find it. Is there a way to install all the development packages not contained in build-essetial?

frankbell · 07-05-2020, 07:40 PM

If it were me, I'd do this: As root, open the Synaptic package manager and use the search function.

shruggy · 07-06-2020, 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stf92

By the way. I installed build-essential. But I look for binutils and don't find it.

This is strange. The dependency chain should be like this:

build-essential > dpkg-dev > binutils
or
build-essential > gcc > gcc-9 > binutils

Does binutils show up in the output of

Code:

apt-cache -i --recurse depends build-essential|grep -w binutils

fatmac · 07-06-2020, 04:37 AM

Also the --fix-broken option might be needed with apt.

stf92 · 07-06-2020, 06:44 AM

I did 'apt install binutils' and it said "binutils is already the newest version". So I have the binutils package installed. I have a list of packages that are supposed to be installed on this machine and I want to check if they are in my system or not.

(a)
Is there a directory containing the names of all the packages installed up to present? For instance, in slackware, you have the /var/log/packages directory and the dir command executed with this as the current directory will list all the package names.

(b)

Code:

root@darkstar:/usr/local/bin# apt install bison
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libbison-dev libsigsegv2 m4
Suggested packages:
  bison-doc m4-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bison libbison-dev libsigsegv2 m4
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,607 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,239 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

The list of suggested packages can be much longer. How do I install all of them?

shruggy · 07-06-2020, 07:08 AM

I use this script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
exec dpkg-query \
  -Wf'${db:Status-Abbrev}${binary:Package}=${Version}\n' "$@" | \
        sed -n s/^.i.//p

It's ~/bin/dli on all my Debian-based systems.

pan64 · 07-06-2020, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stf92

Is there a directory containing the names of all the packages installed up to present?

dpkg -l
will list all the installed packages. Do not install all the suggested packages (if you do not really need to).

stf92 · 07-06-2020, 08:05 AM

Thanks. But when it suggests packages they happen to be -doc packages. Isn't documentation essential?

pan64 · 07-06-2020, 08:21 AM

no, not at all. I mean the system itself can work without any documentation. And you should now if you wanted to read some documentation.

stf92 · 07-06-2020, 11:41 AM

By the way, I want to know if I have diffutils version greater than or equal to 2.8.1 installed. I did

Code:

root@darkstar:/usr/local/bin# dpkg -l diffutils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  diffutils      1:3.7-3      amd64        File comparison utilities
root@darkstar:/usr/local/bin#

But, how do I interpret that version number? How does it compare with 2.8.1?

shruggy · 07-06-2020, 11:43 AM

3.7 is greater than 2.8.1:

Code:

$ dpkg --compare-versions 1:3.7-3 '>=' 2.8.1&&echo yep||echo nay
yep

stf92 · 07-06-2020, 11:49 AM

Thanks.