Terminal Update

Well continuing in my recent “bashing Lucid Lynx” trend I have found a problem once again.  I am sure that we are all familiar with the graphical interface for updating our system.  If not then you can find it by going to System > Administration > Update Manager.  Well for some reason for me this program decides to freeze as well, and unlike Firefox it doesn’t ever recover.  Luckily there is a way to apply updates from the terminal (see the terminal is your second best friend, Google is first).  The command you will need is

sudo apt-get upgrade

This will install the newest version of all packages (programs) that are currently on your system. Here is what the man page says

upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages

currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in

/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new

versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no

circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages

not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of

currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without

changing the install status of another package will be left at

their current version. An update must be performed first so that

apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.

So after reading this it would seem that you might have to run either sudo apt-get autoremove or sudo apt-get autoclean.

I am not sure if this will also take care of security updates as well so just to be on the safe side I would assume not.  So I’ll have to find a way to get this done from the terminal as well.  Hope this was helpful to some of you, or at least provided you with a bit of new information.