Article:		Adventures in Migrating to New Linux Distributions
Subject:		apt-get update
Date:		2005-04-08 09:51:55
From:		JoeNiner
FYI, apt-get update does not upgrade packages, it just updates the package repository info. apt-get upgrade is the command you need.

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• apt-get update
  2005-05-02 18:53:32  Kevin Farnham | [Reply | View]
  
  
  READERS, PLEASE NOTE THIS! this is an important error in my article. Thank you for your correction, JoeNiner.
  
  Here's the link to the debian apt "how-to" documentation:
  
  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/
  
  which confirms JoeNiner's comment.