update-manager8

Usage

Overview

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

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