this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Use this community for anything related to linux for now, if it gets too huge maybe there will be some sort of meme/gaming/shitpost spinoff. Currently though… go nuts

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You want to know what the store actually has in stock before buying.

[–] Maddison@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

actually, every morning I wake, I update first thing, so I guess, I found it somewhat useless

[–] forwardvoid@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don’t have to do this. Run something like apticron if you want to make sure you don’t miss security updates or want everything on the latest version all the time.

[–] Maddison@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

actually, I like updating :') I have some free time and I like looking at package names (that's a call for help)

[–] oleorun@lemmy.fan 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not necessarily required but it is strongly suggested in case the package you are installing requires the latest version of a dependency.

[–] Maddison@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago
[–] forwardvoid@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It updates the package lists APT uses. You don’t have to run update before installing. But you could be installing the previous version of the application. For instance if you never run update, the upgrade command won’t do anything.

Edit: spelling

[–] Lammy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The god of penguins will punish you if you do not follow his will.

Tux has spoken.

[–] vpzom@dev.narwhal.city 5 points 1 year ago

coming from arch that's terrifying

[–] Shikadi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't, you can end up with dependency issues. Or at the very least you might install old out of date packages

[–] Maddison@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have some dependency issues for sure

[–] TheKrzyk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all need to apt update && apt upgrade our lives from time to time

[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t ask. It makes things more exciting that way.