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Commands tagged upgrade

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Terminal - Commands tagged upgrade - 7 results
List upgrade-able packages on Redhat
2013-01-14 11:51:54
User: phunehehe
Tags: upgrade package centos
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yum -q list updates | tail -n+2
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apt-get --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated -s dist-upgrade | grep ^Inst | cut -d ' ' -f2
2013-01-07 11:21:58
User: phunehehe
Functions: apt cut grep
Tags: Ubuntu upgrade package
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List upgrade-able packages on Ubuntu

Taken from apticron and modified.

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apt-get -s upgrade | awk '/[0-9]+ upgraded,/ {print $1 " package updates are available"}'
2012-03-29 17:04:32
User: lpanebr
Functions: apt awk
Tags: apt-get upgrade
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List total available upgrades from apt without upgrading the system

This let's you find out the total packages that have available upgrades. Usefull if you want to check or show the total available upgrades on your system.

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trickle sudo apt-get update -y
2011-02-15 02:05:37
User: mrman
Functions: sudo
Tags: Debian apt-get upgrade bandwidth trickle
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apt-get upgrade with bandwidth limit

Trickle is here: http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

Trickle is a simple bandwidth limiter

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sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=20 -o Acquire::https::Dl-Limit=20 upgrade -y
2011-02-14 05:24:49
User: ruslan
Functions: sudo
Tags: Debian apt-get upgrade bandwidth
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apt-get upgrade with bandwidth limit

in Debian-based systems apt-get could be limited to the specified bandwidth in kilobytes using the apt configuration options(man 5 apt.conf, man apt-get). I'd quote man 5 apt.conf:

"The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit which accepts integer values in kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates the limit and tries uses as much as possible of the bandwidth..."

"HTTPS URIs. Cache-control, Timeout, AllowRedirect, Dl-Limit and proxy options are the same as for http..."

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sudo aptitude update; sudo apt-get -y --print-uris upgrade | egrep -o -e "http://[^\']+" | sudo aria2c -c -d /var/cache/apt/archives -i -; sudo aptitude -y safe-upgrade
2010-02-18 16:02:29
User: freethinker
Functions: egrep sudo
Tags: Debian Ubuntu upgrade fast
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Speed up upgrades for a debian/ubuntu based system.

Please install aria2c before you try the above command. On ubuntu the command to install aria2c would be:

sudo aptitude install aria2
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apt-get --just-print upgrade
2010-02-18 11:19:05
User: noqqe
Functions: apt
Tags: apt apt-get list updates upgrade without
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List available upgrades from apt without upgrading the system
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