[X Servers] Run Software Update remotely

James Bucanek subscriber at gloaming.com
Thu Feb 13 21:18:48 PST 2003


Marc Farnum Rendino wrote on Thursday, February 13, 2003:
>At 10:18 AM -0800 on 03/01/22, R. Hannes Niedner wrote:
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>>What is the best way to run software update remotely.
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>Command line? Can't remember the syntax but it's in the docs; 
>"apropos upd" would probably find it too.

Unfortunately, softwareupdate doesn't have a man page.

To get a list of available updates:

    softwareupdate
    
To install one or more updates

    sudo softwareupdate <item> [ <item> ... ]

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