Kubuntu 12.04.01

[marco07]

Hello;
With Kubuntu 12.04.01 just out, are we already automatically upgraded if using a fully updated 12.04?
Or is there a need for a clean install?
Thanks!

[SteveRiley]

In a Konsole window:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

will upgrade all currently installed packages. No need to rebuild your PC.

[marco07]

In a Konsole window:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

will upgrade all currently installed packages. No need to rebuild your PC.

Did it!
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Thank you Steve!

[Cresho]

Did it!
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Thank you Steve!

did this also update nvidia drivers to 304.37?

[SteveRiley]

did this also update nvidia drivers to 304.37?

I don't have nVidia graphics, so I'm not certain. What does this show:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

[NickStone]

With an LTS you do not need to do a dist-upgrade to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.04.1 just a simple sudo apt-get upgrade will do it.

You only need to do a dist-upgrade when wanting to upgrade to the next version such as 12.04 to 12.10

But I could be wrong.

[OneLine]

upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

man apt-get:

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...

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...

[claydoh]

To simplify things, if you keep your 12.04 system up to date regularly, you are already at 12.04.1

dist-upgrade is generally preferred as it will also install any new packages, whereas update will not.

[marco07]

did this also update nvidia drivers to 304.37?

I do not have nvidia drivers in my system.