Menu System Tools/Software Updater not working after, Lubuntu upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04
Ralf Mardorf
silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun Aug 26 07:22:11 UTC 2018
On Sun, 2018-08-26 at 08:20 +0200, grasso wrote:
> My question is now:
> Is it a good check to try running "sudo apt-get upgrade" to see if
> update will then be performed, because I did not yet tried.
Yesno. Don't follow the link you posted.
First run
sudo apt upgrade
(alternatively you could run
sudo apt-get update)
this will sync the package index files, not the packages.
Then run
sudo apt full-upgrade
('sudo apt-get upgrade' isn't good, an alternative would be
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade)
If there should be upgrades, they will be shown. You need to confirm if
you want to continue and do the upgrade or if you don't want to upgrade.
See
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/apt-get.8.html
and
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/apt.8.html
if you want to understand the difference between 'upgrade' and 'full-
upgrade' or 'dist-upgrade'.
By default there is one important difference between the "old"
'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' and the "new" 'sudo apt full-upgrade'.
By default 'apt-get' caches the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/,
'apt' doesn't.
If you want to use the "new" apt, but cache the packages, too, run
sudo apt full-upgrade -o APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages=1
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