update-manager(8)

update-manager8

Graphical management of software packages updates

Usage

update-manager [options]

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

Releases

3 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0–7

--check-dist-upgrades since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --devel-release since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --help since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --proposed since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -c since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -d since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -h since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -p since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

Authors

update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <[email protected]> with various contributors (see AUTHORS file)

This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt <[email protected]>.

From update-manager-gnome 0.200.5-2.1 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.