UPDATE-MANAGER
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: April 15, 2010
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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
- -V, --version
-
Show version
- --data-dir=DATA_DIR
-
Directory that contains the data files
- -c, --check-dist-upgrades
-
Check if a new distribution release is available
- -d, --devel-release
-
If using the latest supported release, upgrade to the development release
- -p, --proposed
-
Upgrade using the latest proposed version of the release upgrader
- --no-focus-on-map
-
Do not focus on map when starting
ACTIONS PERFORMED DURING AN UPGRADE TO A NEW VERSION
* 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.