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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Newby: How to actually update software?! Post 302866113 by bakunin on Monday 21st of October 2013 10:20:30 AM

10-21-2013

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Originally Posted by sas

Bakuian - Yes this is very helpful! I've 3 Debian--wheezy-based Linux machines, would something like this work?

Debian Synaptic

Yes. Synaptics is a graphical frontend for the package manager (apt). Instead of typing "apt-get search <packagename>" or something such, you can list all the available packages, filter for a certain one (or some), download and install them, satisfying any dependencies automatically in the process.

Deinstall what you "untarred somewhere" and search for apt-packages for Hadoop.

I hope this helps.

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apt-cudf-get

APT-CUDF-GET(8) 						    DOSE Tools							   APT-CUDF-GET(8)

NAME

       apt-cudf-get - wrapper for calling apt-get with external solvers

SYNOPSIS

       apt-cudf-get [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

       apt-cudf-get is a wrapper that allows to invoke apt-get with external solvers while ignoring apt's pinning.

       All options are passed on to apt-get.

       Normally, apt uses so-called pinning to select a candidate version of a package in case there are several versions available. This also
       holds when calling apt-get with external solvers. However, when it is not possible to find a solution under this constraint, it may be
       useful to relax pinning and to allow the external solver to choose among all available versions of packages in order to satisfy
       dependencies, not only those that are selected by the pinning.  This is precisely what apt-cudf-get does.

       Note that, when using an external solver, the proposed solution may contain any available version of the packages that are given as
       arguments to install on the command line without specifying a version qualifier.

       For example

	   apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml

       may propose to install any available version of ocaml, while

	   apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml=4.01.0

       will only propose to install ocaml in version 4.01.0

AUTHOR

       Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo

BUGS

       Not all types of arguements to apt are correctly treated by this wrapper, in particular not the +pkg and -pkg shorthands for installation
       and removal requests.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get(8), apt-cudf(1), apt-cudf.conf(5), update-cudf-solvers(8), README.cudf-solvers
       <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.cudf-solvers>, README.Debian <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.Debian>

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