apt-get bug in version detection?

[Daniel Resare]

fre 2002-07-26 klockan 22.44 skrev R Shapiro:
> I see that YDL posted a new update today, for qt.  When I try to use
> apt-get to get it, it says:
> 
>   > sudo apt-get install qt
>   Processing File Dependencies... Done
>   Reading Package Lists... Done       
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Sorry, qt is already the newest version
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove(replace) and 2 not
>   upgraded. 
> 
> The two packages in question are qt and qt-devel (I don't use any
> other qt- packages).  The versions I have installed are 3.0.3-11.  The
> versions in the update are 3.0.3-11a.  Apparently apt-get doesn't
> think this is a newer version.  Why not?
> 

I think you're missing that getting hold of newly published packages
with apt-get is a two-step process. First you need to update your local
package lists with 'apt-get update', then apt-get knows that there are
new files and you can run 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get install xxx' to
get hold of them.

Good luck!

/noa

ps. I always run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' periodically