apt get vs synaptic pacage monitor

[NoOp]

On 06/01/2009 02:37 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
> On Mon, June 1, 2009 02:46, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> Just be aware that I've run across an issue with the jaunty
>> "update-manager" that seems to be more of "update-sometimes-manager"
>> whereby I:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>>
>>
>> No updates showup (yet I know they are there)
> 
> This is normal. apt-get update only refreshes the package list.
> To install upgrades, you need to do

Sorry, I should have been more clear; 'sudo apt-get update' wasn't
bringing up the update notifier even though I know updates were there
and available.

$ sudo apt-get update

does indeed refresh the package list, and if there are updates available
it is supposed to cause the update notifier to launch in the
gnome-panel. This is the way that it's been for the past two years
(e-f-g-h-i-j). In this case it wasn't working.

> 
> $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
> or
> $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
> 
> after sudo aptitude update.

Sorry, but neither of those commands are necessary or logical in this
case. If I want to actually do updates from the terminal then I'd just
follow my 'sudo apt-get update' with 'sudo apt-get upgrade'.

Whatever was causing the problem seems to have sorted itself out as I
just ran 'sudo apt-get update' (again knowing that updates are
available) and the notifier launched and is showing that 6 updates are
now available.