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authorGareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org>2014-07-18 15:30:35 +0100
committerGareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org>2014-08-21 17:36:42 +0100
commit3ea0618041b9d403052000d5877da0447708aeb0 (patch)
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parenta36ad1680d46f36e78afa37d917c2833c21f1cd4 (diff)
Add section on upgrading the OS packages
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@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ Generate the locales you wish to make available. When the interactive screen ask
Start a new SSH session to use your SSH locale.
+### Update the OS
+
+Update the Operating System with the latest packages
+
+ apt-get update -y
+ apt-get upgrade -y
+
+`sudo` is not installed on Debian by default. Install it along with `vim` (a useful text editor) and `git` (the version control tool we'll use to get a copy of the Alaveteli code).
+
+ apt-get install -y sudo vim git-core
+
### Prepare to install system dependencies using OS packages
These are packages that the software depends on: third-party software used to