Debian Lenny: is my system up-to-date?

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Howto find out if a Debian Lenny 64-bit is up-to-date?

When I run sudo aptitude update it only tells me something like

...
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny Release
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/updates Release
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze Release
...
Reading package lists...

But no updates seems to be actually performed.

Am I missing something ?

Vokuhila-Oliba

Posted 2010-01-27T19:07:24.217

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Answers

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aptitude update
aptitude upgrade

opexxx

Posted 2010-01-27T19:07:24.217

Reputation: 66

Correct version today is aptitude safe-upgrade although upgrade still works, but aptitude gives a warning. – Ahe – 2010-01-27T20:10:02.370

so what is aptitude update used for when it doesn't update the system? – Vokuhila-Oliba – 2010-01-27T20:57:05.617

@Vokuhila-Oliba: It fetches (updates) the lists that contain information about every application in the repositories. Based on this lists aptitude upgrade performs the update. – Felix – 2010-01-27T21:06:11.853

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