Question 2 of 3: Ubuntu - apt-get and Update Manager

[Basil Chupin]

On 22/07/10 14:55, M Thomason wrote:
> On 22/07/2010 05:50, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> Does anyone know, please, why apt-get and the Update Manager behave in
>> "different ways"?
>>
>> By this I mean: I used apt-get update/upgrade and I had upgrades
>> installed; I then followed this up with the Update Manager "just for
>> kicks" and found that it picked up more apps to be upgraded - and I
>> don't mean just one or two but possibly 10. This was a while back and
>> now I do this everyday - and it happens almost every time: apt-get does
>> its job and then Update Manager finds more and all this within moments
>> of apt-get finishing.
>>
>> Anyone have a suggestion why this occurs?
>>
>> BC
>>
>>      
> Wild guess here as I only really use apt-get myself, is there any chance
> Update Manager is picking up the things like Kernel updates that apt-get
> usually holds back and needs a "dist-upgrade" for?
>    

An intriguing thought - well worth consideration.

It certainly hasn't done any kernel updates that I can recall - today, 
for example, there were no kernel updates - but after I read the above I 
looked at "man apt-get" and perhaps the more appropriate line command 
would be "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" rather than the simple "upgrade"?

(I raise this question because of the fact that I keep reading almost 
everywhere that if you want to install something to "sudo apt-get 
install xxxxxxxx" or "sudo apt-get upgrade" -- but nobody seems to 
emphasise, "Why not use the Update Manager: System>Administration>Update 
Manager?".

As the late Professor Sumner Miller here in Sydney, Australia, used to 
say on his TV science show, "WHY is this so?!" :-) )

BC


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