On Sunday 15 July 2018 00:34:41 Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat July 14 2018 23:36:30 William Morder wrote: > > On Saturday 14 July 2018 21:16:45 Mike Bird wrote: > > > To upgrade existing packages use "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade". > > > > I always do that, except that I don't put the two commands together. Is > > there some reason that it is better to run "apt-get update && apt-get > > upgrade" and not "apt-get update" and then afterwards "apt-get upgrade"? > > The "&&" is an instruction to computers and a reminder to humans not to > do the upgrade if the update fails. > > --Mike > Oh, right. Is that like when I couldn't access Trinity's repositories (for some reason, long time ago), and suddenly apt wanted to uninstall everything TDE? I've seen the && part of the command before, but mostly for getting keyrings, etc., and I prefer to do stuff one step at a time, if possible, to watch what's happening. However, I can (maybe) change. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
