Free Alternatives to Everyday Software

Getting Software Updates

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This video outlines your options for keeping open source software up-to-date, be it using installers, code patches, code repositories or package managers. It also explains the difference between standard release schedules as opposed to more ‘bleeding edge’ updates.

Keywords

  • Software updates
  • patch
  • installer
  • package manager
  • repository
  • bleeding edge

About this video

Author(s)
Karl Beecher
First online
04 December 2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4377-0_2
Online ISBN
978-1-4842-4377-0
Publisher
Apress
Copyright information
© Karl Beecher 2019