LUG: Question about installing updates in Ubuntu - Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:14:24 -0500

Subject : LUG: Question about installing updates in Ubuntu

From : "Daniel Underwood" <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:14:24 -0500

Sometimes when I attempt to upgrade my system on the command-line by

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

a few upgrades are "held back". When I then attempt to upgrade my
system using the update-manager (System > Administration > Update
Manager), the previously held-back packages are installed. These
held-back updates are usually kernel updates, IIRC.

Why is this? Why on earth can't APT on the command-line perform all the
upgrades that the gnome update-manager can perform?
--
Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
Graduate Student - Operations Research
email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
phone: XXX.302.3291
web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/

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