apt-get wife

[beeswax]

http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png

[FN-GM]

forwarded this onto a friend, love it

[dancingdruid]

But if you didn't apt-get upgrade would you get to keep the same wife version for ever?

[CyberNerd]

But if you didn't apt-get upgrade would you get to keep the same wife version for ever?

I don't think that would work:

sudo apt-get upgrade
     Reading Package Lists... Done
     Building Dependency Tree... Done
     The following packages have been kept back:
wife

you'd need to:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[PEO]

wish I was a vicar... all women would automatically say "I do" to every question that i ask

[teejay]

I don't think that would work:

sudo apt-get upgrade
     Reading Package Lists... Done
     Building Dependency Tree... Done
     The following packages have been kept back:
wife

you'd need to:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Ah, almost, but to get rid of the old version of wife first you need to:
sudo apt-get --purge remove wife

If the new version of wife isn't quite ready yet, you might have to temporarilly:
sudo apt-get install mother

But be very careful not to install mother-in-law by mistake after purging old wife.