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On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:58:11PM -0500, basic wrote: > is the -y a new option? It's a synonym for '--assume-yes'. I personally recommend against using it. Darxus uses it, I think, to avoid having to hit <Enter> if there are more packages to be installed than those you specify on the command line (due to dependencies). I don't use it because I don't want apt replacing my config files with the defaults. Note that I *do* use it with the -d option (download only). I like to do this: $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -dy dist-upgrade ...useful when you track unstable. I can start updating, go and do something else, and come back and do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' interactively (where I can monitor config file replacements). As to whether or not it's new, I'm not sure. It's in the version of dpkg that's in potato. -- Bill Jonas | "In contrast to the What You See Is What You bill@billjonas.com | Get (WYSIWYG) philosophy, UNIX is the You http://www.billjonas.com/ | Asked For It, You Got It operating system." http://www.debian.org/ | --Scott Lee, as quoted by Lamb and Robbins ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug