[PLUG] apt-get update question

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Fri Aug 27 11:36:01 UTC 2004


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Paul Mullen <pem at nellump.net> writes:

> You could probably run `apt-get update` every day and always find that
> changes have been made to your favorite repository, but there's really
> no reason unless you're planning on freshening up your system, or
> intalling some new packages. It's a relatively painless procedure,
> anyhow, at least over a decent (e.g., not dial-up) connection.

Cron-apt automates the process, doing it in the daily cron jobs.  You
can also set up cron-apt to fetch the packages as well.  When you do
get around to freshening your install a bit, most, if not all, the
heavy lifting is already done.
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