Automatic updates

[monon]

I received notice of software updates, checked them out and found the big item was a kernel update. During the update a dependency was not resolved and the updates did not complete. I did not take careful notes of the problem messages, thinking I could restart the updates. Now, I find I do not know how to restart everything, nor can I find a log of the problem. I am using Synpatic Package Manager. Does anyone know how I resolve this issue?

Thank you,
Monon

[Robtygart]

Hi Monon

In your terminal type.

sudo apt-get update

Then

sudo apt-get upgrade

[monon]

Thank you, Robtygart. You fixed the problem.

[Robtygart]

Hi Monon
Your welcome! That is the way I usually update now, I don't use update manager much.

[Snowhog]

For all.

Using sudo apt-get upgrade isn't as good as using sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. The difference is how apt handles dependencies.

upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new
versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages
not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will be left at
their current version. An update must be performed first so that
apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.

dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
the general settings for individual packages.

[Robtygart]

Thank you Snowhog, I did not know that.

[Xplorer4x4]

Nice tip Snowhog!

@monon, I am not the most experienced linux user, so I resort to GUIs(or service menus because I am lazy ) more then the gurus might, but when it comes to performing updates, I *always* prefer to do it the cli way. It's quick and easy to remember, but more importantly I get a more verbose/detailed report of what is being pulled in to my system. I don't know how detailed Synaptic is as I use the built in Muon Package Manager if I really need some sort of package management gui, but the great part of doing this over cli is that not only do I see package X is being upgraded, but I also see that package Y is being pulled in as a new dependency or that dependency is being upgraded in addition to the base package being upgraded. It is pretty hard to screw up this particular cli command, so personally speaking, I think updates should *always* be done using cli...Unless I missed something with regard to Muon showing me exactly what is being pulled in.