New Adventures in Technology » Foresight http://teknostatik.co.uk Musings on music, computers and other things Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:33:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Updating and installing software on Foresight Linux http://teknostatik.co.uk/2009/05/16/updating-and-installing-software-on-foresight-linux/ http://teknostatik.co.uk/2009/05/16/updating-and-installing-software-on-foresight-linux/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 16:01:41 +0000 Andy http://teknostatik.co.uk/?p=612 Continue reading →]]> I’ve just installed the latest version of Foresight on my spare laptop, so I thought I’d investigate the package manager, conary, which is something I’ve never used before, but which looks like it could be as useful as apt and urpmi.

It’s really quite simple. To update to the latest version of all installed packages, type:

$ sudo conary updateall

And to install a specific package, type:

$ sudo conary update packagename

I’ll write more when I’ve explored further.

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