NAME¶
update-manager - graphical management of software packages updates
SYNOPSIS¶
update-manager [options]
DESCRIPTION¶
Update-manager is a frontend for the apt package management system. It allows
you to perform some actions of the command line tool apt-get in a graphical
environment.
Update-manager is especially designed for upgrading your system, or migrating
your system towards a more recent version.
OPTIONS¶
For a daily use, you may launch update-manager with no options so that your
system is just upgraded.
For migration purposes, update-manager accepts some options:
- -h, --help
- Show a similar help message
- -c, --check-dist-upgrades
- Check if a new distribution release is available
- -d, --devel-release
- Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is
possible
- -p, --proposed
- Try to run a dist-upgrade
- --dist-upgrade
- Try to run a dist-upgrade
* eventually reinstall the package ubuntu-desktop
* switch to an updated sources.list entries
* adds the default user to new groups if needed
SEE ALSO¶
Synaptic,
sources.list,
aptitude
AUTHORS¶
update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> with various
contributors (see AUTHORS file)
This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt
<mvo@ubuntu.com>.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Canonical
There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the
GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the
files named COPYING.