Upgrading single package.

Asked by weber

I have Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS server system. A lot of my installed packages are quite old. I don't want to make a full upgrade of all packages using "apt-get update" and then "apt-get upgrade". Is it possible to upgrade just a single packet (apache server for example or SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.2p1)?

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Best Gord Allott (gordallott) said :
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sure, you can either mark it for upgrade in synaptic or do sudo apt-get install <package>, replacing <package> with the package name you want to upgrade. :)

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weber (pseudo-uzer) said :
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As I understand, if I have a package for example called monit. I've installed it using command "apt-get install monit"
To upgrade this package after two monthes for example I need to do "apt-get update", and than just "apt-get install monit".

Am I right?

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weber (pseudo-uzer) said :
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when can i get the list of last versions of software in my distro?

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said :
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yes if you want to just install that update then thats correct. it may update a few other things that it depends on also but that is to be expected.
http://packages.ubuntu.com will list all the packages available for ubuntu

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) said :
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Packages in 6.06.1 LTS will be old, they were new in June 2006 though.

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weber (pseudo-uzer) said :
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So You don't recommend using this distro? Yo recomend using Ubuntu 7.04 - Supported to 2008?

I'm already stuck in this..

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weber (pseudo-uzer) said :
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Thanks Gord Allott, that solved my question.

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amar (amarendra) said :
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in my case updating the repositories is the problem. so how can i update just one repository ? for example I know that firefox-3.6 is out there and i need to update just firefox-stable PPA and not all others as it would waste my time and bandwidth(too low) as I had updated 2-3 days back..