notification of new version

[Jacob Mansfield]

so generally a bad thing
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer



On 15 October 2010 21:07, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gryllida <gryllida at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/16/10, Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
> >> On Friday, October 15, 2010 3:06:47 am R Kimber wrote:
> >>> I was wondering how someone who isn't subscribed to this or a related
> >>> list,
> >>> and who doesn't spend time visiting Ubuntu websites, know that there's
> a
> >>> new version released?  Update manager used to do this, but so far it
> has
> >>> failed to alert me to the new version. I've had two or three normal
> >>> updates
> >>> of 10.04 stuff since 10.10 was released. Does it wait for a specified
> time
> >>> after release before alerting people?
> >
> > Run this: "update-manager -d" for distribution updates. Normally, you
> > will be notified when the new major version appears at your local
> > mirror server. It can take several days, but that is just a wild
> > guess.
>
> Please check the man pages before posting any information. The "-d"
> switch upgrades an install to a development release.
>
> This has already been discussed on the list; more than once.
>
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