[mythtv-users] Dumb to "Upgrade"... Re: Program Schedules: working or not? How to (re)configure?

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
>>    ** sudo apt-get dist-upgrade  {takes more HD space AND requires time and
>> support phone numbers}
>
> Not exactly.  The only difference is that dist-upgrade can pull in new
> packages if needed.  I never use apt-get upgrade.  I only ever run
> dist-upgrade.
>
>
>> This is the first time I've ever seen a reference to:  "apt-get/dpkg"
>> I notice that you don't have the word "update" or "upgrade" after it;  what
>> don't I know about this?
>> is dpkg a setting for apt-get, or is it a substitute for update/upgrade?
>
> dpkg is the program which actually does package installation or
> removal.  apt is the system for figuring out which packages to
> install/remove/upgrade.  apt-get is the command line interface to apt.
>  apt uses dpkg internally to do the installations, but sometimes you
> can skip apt and call dpkg directly yourself.
>
> Eric
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One thing to note is that, when doing a major MythTV version upgrade
on a Ubuntu system, it will ALWAYS REQUIRE a dist-upgrade. I suspect
the same for other distributions as well.


Thanks,

Thomas Mashos