Do .pets automatically update themselves?

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paperboy1994
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Do .pets automatically update themselves?

#1 Post by paperboy1994 »

After puppy linux users have the puppy package manager install an application, do they allow the application to update itself, or must they wait for someone to provide a new pet package?

If they do update the application and subsequently ask the puppy package manager to delete it, will all the remaining original and updated items be deleted?

musher0
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#2 Post by musher0 »

Hi paperboy1994.

In answer to your question:

No, Puppy is not designed to update any of its programs or components
automatically. Puppy is not a "rolling distro" (as they are called), such as
ArchLinux or Fedora, for example.

The basic set of programs for a particular version of Puppy virtually never
changes. You'd update from one version of Puppy to the next higher
version by installing the higher version and stopping to use the old one.

That said, some members here act as maintainers within Puppy for this or
that application. Examples: radky with his PupInfo etc. suite; Mike_Walsh
with the Chrome browser; zigbert with pfind and pmusic. So if you follow
their work on this forum, you will be able to update some programs
manually while staying with a particular version of Puppy.

IHTH. BFN.
musher0
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#3 Post by bigpup »

ask the puppy package manager to delete it
Basically, if a package pet install is listed in the PPM uninstall, there is info stored on what the pet specifically installed.
PPM uninstall uses this info to uninstall all that the pet installed.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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