[mixpc]

Hello everyone!

I've been testing apt-get, some trial&error so as to learn how to use it properly. I had a brand new 1.05a install so I did (sudo):
apt-get update
apt-get install xbian-package-firmware

that get rid of the audio popping issue

The I played with the alternative method to install XBMC 12.1 (sudo):
apt-get update

I realised "apt-get upgrade" would upgrade many different packages, 68 as far as I can remember so I checked what those packages are:

apt-get -s upgrade

output: http://pastebin.com/GB51V2yA

So, since I was interested in xbian-package-xbmc only I did:

apt-get install xbian-package firmware

I'm quite a newbie so I was glad to see apt-get will take care of dependencies!

apt-cache showpkg xbian-package-xbmc

E.g. xbian-package-firmware (2 1.3) and libbluetooth3 would be installed prior to xbian-package-xbmc version 2.1 Since I had already installed xbian-package-firmware (2 1.3) Xbian would only download libbluetooth3. Charming!

Plus, checksums are available and something tells me Xbian/raspbian/debian/linux takes care of those checksums before setting up packages too Could anyone please confirm checksums are calculated prior to package install?

Then apt-get check just to be sure everything is ok and apt-get autoclean

And now I wonder, why does the alternative method state...?

apt-get upgrade -y

So as to upgrade all those 68 upgradable packages (64 upgradable, 4 remain the way they are), obviously. But is there a need for that? Wouldn't running that command be a problem when a new Xbian release is out? I mean wouldn't it break any dependencies? The goal in mind is whether upgrading the less the better and wait for a new Xbian relase or... upgrade anything upgradable because that won't pose any trouble to update Xbian to a forthcoming release...

Big concern indeed!

Thank you for reading!