[PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 23:58:27 UTC 2020


Software updater does a few extra things, as you have noticed. You probably
want to find out why it's failing and fix that since it's not running
through the sequence of steps that we would expect.

in the mean time, the following commands are sufficient to update your
system:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

You do NOT need to run dist-upgrade all the time. There are plenty of
arguments about this one on the various forums if someone wants to get
nitpicky, but suffice it to say that in a desktop-oriented end-user system
you don't need dist-upgrade.

Banish it from your mind. It's irrelevant to how your system operates.
-Ben

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 7:58 AM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 4/25/20 12:07 AM, Lou wrote:
> > What a coincidence! A friend who is running Ubuntu 18.04 in his laptop
> > also had the same problem. The update manager said that there is no
> > Internet when there was a working Internet connection.
> >
> > So, I just opened the terminal for him, and typed
> >
> >  sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
> >
> > and run the update through the Terminal, and it worked.
> >
> > I am not running Ubuntu 18.04, but I suspect there was some kind of
> > regression or new bug introduced in last update. This is just a guess
> > based on my friend's and your experience.
>
> What's the difference between apt dist-upgrade and apt upgrade?
>
> And when I run Software Updater from the menu, is that supposed to do
> both apt update, and apt upgrade or dist-upgrade?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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