Version Update Process via Muon Update Manager

[Daniel Villarreal]

I do "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" and/or use synaptic... I
never did care for the different update managers, except when using
Fedora. I suppose you could back up and do a fresh install... or? BTW,
Have you tried installing the microcode package for your processor in
the 64-bit distro? I install intel-microcode on my systems.

from synaptic...
Intel-microcode
"Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

This package contains updated system processor microcode for
Intel i686 and Intel X86-64 processors.  Intel releases microcode
updates to correct processor behavior as documented in the
respective processor specification updates.

For AMD processors, please refer to the amd64-microcode package."

regards,
Daniel Villarreal

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Donald Chandonnet
<smile4yourself at poetryfromheaven.com> wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 06:26:07 -0400
> From: Daniel Villarreal <youcanlinux at gmail.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>,
>         Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: LTS v14.04.1
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> Do you have an issue that can't be resolved with the current version and
> updates?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here is an issue that I experienced, being a relatively new user of kubuntu.
> I was running the LTS version for some time and found it to be quite
> dependable, but one day I changed some option in Muon Update Manager, to be
> notified of new versions. Very soon after I started to get nag messages that
> there was a new version available.
>
> I was running Kubuntu 12.04, the 32bit image because there were problems
> with the 64 bit version I had tested before.
> I decided in a moment of weakness, to upgrade my production system.
>
> The upgrade worked quite well, and I get Kubuntu 12.10. Later more nag
> messages, so I upgraded again. <oh my!>
>
> I ended up with Saucy, 13.10 but the 64 bit version.
>
> I was not offered a choice here. I was not told either to what version I was
> upgrading... Seems to me that it would be more friendly to ask the user if
> they really want to upgrade to version xxx and especially to go from a 32
> bit image to a 64 bit image.
>
> So now I'm stuck here for a while. Ksysguard does not work correctly as it
> does not display my CPU histories nor the network usage history. I figured
> out how to enter a bug in the launchpad (from the help menu in ksysguard).
>
> I suggest: add some messages to Muon Package Update Manager when it is going
> to upgrade to a new version. Tell us what it is going to do rather than
> letting us find out afterwards.
>
> That would help dummies like me. <smile>
>
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