Question About Remote Updates **SOLVED**

[Jay Ridgley]

Nils,
I just expected it to function like it does when using 
System>Administration>Update Manager does on a local system.

Thanks for the tip...

Cheers,
Jay
-- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:15:05 +0200 From: Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> 
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Question About Remote Updates 
Message-ID: <201203251215.05408.kassube at gmx.net> Content-Type: Text/Plain; 
charset="iso-8859-1" Jay Ridgley wrote:
 > > I have two systems that I maintain remotely using apt-get
 > > check/update/upgrade (each run separately) via ssh. Why do I not get
 > > a message about restarting the system even though the update
 > > packages listing that I get contain information that a new kernel is
 > > available?
What type of message would you expect?

 > > I get this series of messages:
 > >
 > > cdjsys at ursa:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
 > > Reading package lists... Done
 > > Building dependency tree
 > > Reading state information... Done
 > > The following packages have been kept back:
 > >    linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic ubufox
 > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
 > >
 > > How can I install these?
sudo apt-get install linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic ubufox


Nils



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