Linux – How to update software on linux (Debian)

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I noticed that I have lots of programs on my Debian 6.0.3 that need to be update. Eg. I go to the official page of the program eg. transmission bittorent client and I see the newest version is 2.4 and mine is 2.0. and the same case about other programs.

I ran both apt-get update , apt-get upgrade and nothing happens they are still old versions

Thanks for any help 😉

Best Answer

The Debian distribution does not focus on always having the absolutely newest versions in the repository, especially for the stable and testing suites. You can pull individual packages from unstable if you are willing to take the risk of untested software:

apt-get install -t unstable transmission

This requires you to have unstable in your sources.list.

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