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dougweaver
February 25th, 2009, 03:58 AM
Hi folks. I am a total noob to the Linux world. I finally got my old Toshiba laptop set up with Ubuntu 8.04 and just got it online tonight. :p
Shortly after I got connected, I was notified that there were 266 updates available. They comprise over 315MB of files.

My question is, how can I tell which ones I "really" need?
I am hesitant to go ahead and install them all.
I'm mainly concerned about security patches etc.

Any advice is appreciated.

thanks,
Doug

x33a
February 25th, 2009, 04:12 AM
after a fresh install, you should install all the updates, as most of them are bug fixes and security fixes, etc.

dougweaver
February 26th, 2009, 12:18 AM
Thanks for the advice, I'll go ahead and get them all.

thanks!