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Software Update: a question of order
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Jan 6, 2004, 09:28 PM
 
I have dial-up at home which is slow as heck for Software Updates so I usually download updates at work where it's much faster and then burn them to a CD to bring home. I'm curious to know if the Software Update window lists updates in the order in which they need to be installed. Is this the case? Can I muck up my machine by installing updates in the wrong order?
     
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Jan 6, 2004, 09:35 PM
 
Some updates require the latest OS update, so as long as you do the OS updates first, I don't think the other ones matter what order they are done in....however, not entirely sure....
     
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Jan 7, 2004, 09:14 AM
 
If you download the stand-alone updaters (check versiontracker), then you will have no worries as those will check for dependancies first. If you do something hackish with the packages, then you can mess yourself up (but you would have to work at it).
     
   
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