Re: [gNewSense-users] really basic quesiton on gNewSense updates

[Josh Martens]

Sorry for the slow reply.

gNewSense will check what packages you have installed on your machine, and if 
there are updates for those packages, then you will receive a message saying 
there are updates for software on your machine.

This is all pretty basic stuff.

Are you using at external dial up modem by the way?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:47:01AM -0400, andrei raevsky wrote:
> Hi friends,
> 
> Being a newbie to the Ubuntu/gNewSense world, I have a really basic question
> about the regular software updates:
> 
> How are they organized?  Does the software updater offer me to download all
> the updates to all the packages of the full distro (in which case I would
> have to assume that I would have to know each and every package I have or
> not and then check the ones I need and uncheck the others) or does it check
> for the packages installed on my machine and then offer to download and
> update only those which I actually have.
> 
> I assume its the latter, but recently I saw packages for upgrade listed in
> the upgrades manager which I did not recognize, so I rather check.
> 
> (Since  have only dial-up it matters a great deal to me whether I should
> install all the packages listed or not)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei

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