Contents
- 1 How do I force an RPM to update?
- 2 How do I upgrade a specific version of a package?
- 3 How do you update an outdated NPM package?
- 4 What command will upgrade an RPM package?
- 5 How do I change npm version?
- 6 What is sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
- 7 How to find out when a package upgrade requires a reboot?
- 8 Can a service restart when a patch is patched?
How do I force an RPM to update?
To install or upgrade a package, use the -U command-line option:
- rpm -U filename.rpm. For example, to install the mlocate RPM used as an example in this chapter, run the following command:
- rpm -U mlocate-0.22.2-2.i686.rpm.
- rpm -Uhv mlocate-0.22.2-2.i686.rpm.
- rpm –e package_name.
- rpm –qa.
- rpm –qa | more.
How do I upgrade a specific version of a package?
Use npm list [package-name] to know the specific latest version of an installed package. Use npm install [package-name]@[version-number] to install an older version of a package. Prefix a version number with a caret (^) or a tilde (~) to specify to install the latest minor or patch version, respectively.
How do you upgrade the following packages have been kept back?
Per Pablo’s answer, you can run sudo apt-get –with-new-pkgs upgrade , and it will install the kept-back packages.
How do you update an outdated NPM package?
Updating local packages
- Navigate to the root directory of your project and ensure it contains a package.json file: cd /path/to/project.
- In your project root directory, run the update command: npm update.
- To test the update, run the outdated command. There should not be any output.
What command will upgrade an RPM package?
The general form of an rpm upgrade command is rpm {-U|–upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE This install the package or upgrades the package currently installed to a newer version. This is the same as install, except all other version(s) of the package are removed after the new package is installed.
How do I update Nodejs to a specific version?
1. Updating Node using the installers (or downgrading) Just visit the Node installers page at https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and download and install the latest node version. From the “previous releases” section at the bottom of the page, you can select a specific version to install.
How do I change npm version?
Just update the version that nvm installed, which lives in ~/. nvm/versions/node/[your-version]/lib/node_modules/npm . Easy! And yes, this should work for any module, not just npm, that you want to be “global” for a specific version of node.
What is sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
The apt-get dist-upgrade command intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages and will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary.
How to force apt-get to update the state of package versions?
– Ask Ubuntu How do I force apt-get to update the state of package versions? I installed Natty Narwhal last night, and cam across a problem with update manager. I had initially instructed update manager to “Install updates”, but the dialog that popped up stayed on “waiting…” with no progress for over 5 minutes.
How to find out when a package upgrade requires a reboot?
Jim, you have a good point that there should be a way to find out when a package upgrade requires a reboot or service restart. I’m tracking down an expert to see if there are command-line tools to do this (as was requested), since I don’t know of an option to yum or other command that can show that kind of information.
Can a service restart when a patch is patched?
A minor contribution, some packages like sshd, exim and httpd are restarted when they are patched. the service is running. (BZ#719941) But yes, there is no way of being sure any set of patches is catered for e.g libc We patch regularly a known set of packages, and we have worked through if they need a restart.
Can a service be restarted during a kernel upgrade?
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11141. typically there should be a warning or a message if a service was restarted as part of an upgrade process, but most services are not restarted if they are still running. Just as well, any kernel upgrade requires a reboot to the new kernel to be effective.