apt-get vs. Ubuntu Update Manager

[Shawn Christopher]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:

>>This afternoon after reading all the E-mail about sound disapearing I
>>decided I wanted to break my system so I was going to do an apt-get
>>dist-upgrade however it came back as nothing needed to be upgraded. OK,
>>fair enough then I ran the Ubuntu Update Manager and it came up with
>>alot of updates. What is the difference? Shouldn't both of them read
>>from the same sources list?
>>    
>>
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>did you do a "apt-get update" before your dist=upgrade?     I suspect
>the update manager did one for you, thus finding all these new
>updates.
>
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>
Well I am new at this whole Linux thing. So I know how to do a few
things. The whole Apt process is something that I am just fumbling
through right now. I assumed a apt-get dist-upgrade would already do
that. It seems that would be a logical thing. Then again this is me.

Shawn
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