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Installing Updates

Debian

$ apt-get update

$ apt-get upgrade

If you want to see, what apt-get is going to do without actually doing it, you can run:

$ apt-get upgrade -s

RPM based distributions

RHEL

$ yum update

SLES10

$ zypper up -y -t package

SLES11

$ zypper up

You might need to run

$ zypper ref

to update the repository metadata before running zypper up.