Why should I run sudo apt update before installing a package? Why!?

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• riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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  • Maddison@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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    • forwardvoid@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

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• oleorun@lemmy.fan ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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  • Maddison@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    thank you!

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• forwardvoid@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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  • Maddison@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    thanks!

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• Lammy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

  Tux has spoken.

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• vpzom ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  coming from arch that's terrifying
• Shikadi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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 Or at the very least you might install old out of date packages

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  • Maddison@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I have some dependency issues for sure

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    • TheKrzyk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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• rarely@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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