update-manager vs apt-get

Steven Harms thisdyingdream at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 17:21:07 BST 2006


Is there a console version of update-manager for those using ubuntu on
servers?

On 7/19/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:56:01AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 19:03 +0200, Ante Karamatić wrote:
> > > update-manager doesn't do anything special. It just removes additional
> > > manual work (editing sources.list).
>
> Yes, in fact, it does do something special.  It uses more sophisticated,
> special-purpose algorithms to handle the upgrade correctly, and we
> fine-tune
> them to ensure that the upgrade does the right thing.
>
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