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What happen when "sudo apt-get update' is executed ?

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What is the relation of "apt-get install" with "apt-get update" ? What exactly "sudo apt-get update" does ?

posted May 5, 2017 by Vikram Singh

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apt-get update is used for update the list of pakagde, the install allow to add new module but not allow to compile, for compiling you need to add make and make install.

answer Sep 9, 2017 by G.m
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