update or not?

[Amichai Rotman]

Hi Dave,

All it means is that you need to restart the computer after a previous
upgrade, probably after upgrading the Kernel.

Just open the Terminal and enter the following:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

enter the password when prompted to do so and enter at the question (Y/n/q)
- the capital Y means that is the default action to be taken when you press
the Enter key.

That should clear those upgrades pending messages.

Good Luck!

Amichai.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 17:32, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> OK, now when I log in it gives an even longer message (see below).
> Can somebody at least tell me where that message comes from?
>
> Thanks, Dave
>
> Linux pcx36 2.6.32-31-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 18:24:35 UTC 2011
> i686 GNU/Linux
> Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
>
> Welcome to Ubuntu!
>  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
>
> 5 packages can be updated.
> 5 updates are security updates.
>
> Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
>
> Welcome to Ubuntu!
>  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
>
> 9 packages can be updated.
> 4 updates are security updates.
>
> *** System restart required ***
> No mail.
> Last login: Tue May  3 10:49:24 2011
>
>
> Dave Howorth wrote:
> > I have a message I don't understand when I log in to an Ubuntu 10.04
> > system. It says:
> >
> > Linux pcx36 2.6.32-31-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 18:24:35 UTC 2011
> > i686 GNU/Linux
> > Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
> >
> > Welcome to Ubuntu!
> >  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
> >
> > Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
> >
> > Welcome to Ubuntu!
> >  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
> >
> > 9 packages can be updated.
> > 4 updates are security updates.
> >
> > *** System restart required ***
> > No mail.
> >
> >
> > The part I don't understand is the bit about updates and a system
> > restart being required. I just updated the system with synaptic and
> > rebooted - twice, just to be sure. I then ran
> >
> > # apt-get update
> > [snip]
> > # apt-get upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >
> > but it still gives me the update/restart message when I login.
> >
> > What do I need to do to get that message to go away?
> >
> > Thanks, Dave
> >
>
>
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