installing things

[Krister Ekstrom]

Hello,
Pardon my total and utter ignorance here please, but where might i find
the ubuntu-security list? Is it somewhere on the web?
/Krister

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> It could if it were accessible; unfortunately it isn't.  To do a good
> first update and upgrade of packages on ubuntu the file
> /etc/apt/sources.list needs editing.  The lines with # http at their
> beginnings all need changing to http at their beginnings.  Once that's
> done, the command aptitude update will get you the latest software lists
> on your hard drive (an essential prerequisite to a distribution
> upgrade), then the command aptitude dist-upgrade -y will do the upgrade
> for you so your hard drive has the current correct set of files for your
> installation.  It's important to watch the ubuntu-security list since
> this will let you know when hackers find ways to crack software on your
> machine and will let you know when it really is time to do aptitude
> update followed by aptitude dist-upgrade -y so you get any fixed
> packages maybe in time.  After a distribution upgrade gets done a halt
> -p command shuts the system down completely and you need to restart the
> system to use all of the new stuff you downloaded and have none of the
> bad stuff hanging around in memory.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Mírian Bruckschen wrote:
> 
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> On 8/21/07, Josh wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>> From it sounds like, installing things software and such even onto
>>>> ubuntu
>>> involved a lot of commands and things. How do you remember all those
>>> lengthy
>>> commands? or can you copy them all to a clipboard like thing and run
>>> them in
>>> sequence?
>>
>> Have you tried synaptic? I guess it can simplify much of your work.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> -- 
>> Mírian Bruckschen
>>
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