[PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

[Dick Steffens]

On 4/25/20 4:58 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> 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.

Okay. Thanks.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens