Part of Ubuntu’s ease of use is based around the Debian Packaging System, and the use of it’s repositories. One of the best features of this is that it makes it extremely easy to keep your Ubuntu system up to date with updates and also makes it easy to upgrade.
Firstly you always want to make sure your repositories are up to date, so in a terminal window type:
sudo aptitude update
This will check all your repositories for errors and will also check to see what can be updated.
Secondly if you want to install the updates that its found type the following:
sudo aptitude upgrade
This will download and install any package updates.
The following command is only used if you want to upgrade your system to a new version of Ubuntu. This should be used with caution. It will download all the packages needed to upgrade your system to a new version and as such does take some time to run through, so you don’t really want to interrupt the process once it has started, still if you want to go a head with it all you need to do is:
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Would you like to buy me a beer?If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
