keeping updated

[Alan Pope]

On 26 September 2010 15:23, Scott Berry <scottbb1973 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well unfortunately for totally blind people the update-manager does not
> work but I do the next best thing.  I actually change the apt sources
> and do a "apt-get update" and then an"apt-get -y upgrade" and it does
> the same.  I don't have to worry about any apps at all they all upgrade.
>

Ok, a few things

1) You almost certainly want 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' not 'upgrade'.
2) We generally don't recommend you do a release upgrade using that
method, we recommend you use 'sudo do-release-upgrade'
3) if you want to upgrade before release date then use 'sudo
do-release-upgrade -d'

Al.