The packages on your Debian GNU/Linux system must be kept up to date to ensure the security concerns are addressed. Use this command to install any pending updates.
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade |
The Debian user may also use this command.
sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude safe-upgrade |
Both of these commands will update all of the software on a Debian system to the latest versions.
This is how to list all installed packages on your Debian Linux system.
┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ apt list --installed |
Show detailed information about a certain Debian package using this command, this is very useful.
┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ apt-cache show vim-common Package: vim-common Source: vim Version: 2:8.2.3995-1 Installed-Size: 362 Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers <team+vim@tracker.debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: xxd Recommends: vim | vim-gtk3 | vim-athena | vim-nox | vim-tiny Size: 247984 SHA256: b953153b20c0d81524410ac4a3ed5e7f7f9eb6cafc25488b40acc42f961e4904 SHA1: 885df0e0cc2c76e63bd19d8aaf26625b61299c8b MD5sum: 41d58193a8b346bc7f8c317eebb29b4f Description: Vi IMproved - Common files Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. . This package contains files shared by all non GUI-enabled vim variants available in Debian. Examples of such shared files are: manpages and configuration files. Description-md5: 30b64c3dceccc4faef229eafc38d0069 Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: https://www.vim.org/ Tag: devel::editor, interface::text-mode, role::app-data, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::editing, works-with::text, works-with::unicode Section: editors Priority: important Filename: pool/main/v/vim/vim-common_8.2.3995-1_all.deb |
Some very useful tips here. It is important to keep your Linux packages upgraded, so get into the habit of running sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade regularly. This will patch important security issues and also provide new versions of Linux software. This does not take very long, but this is important.