UPDATE-MANAGER(8) System Manager's Manual UPDATE-MANAGER(8)
NAME
update-manager - graphical management of software packages updates
SYNOPSIS
update-manager [options]
DESCRIPTION
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 mi-
grating 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
-V, --version
Show version
--data-dir=DATA_DIR
Directory that contains the data files
-c, --check-dist-upgrades
Check if a new distribution release is available
-d, --devel-release
If using the latest supported release, upgrade to the develop-
ment release
-p, --proposed
Upgrade using the latest proposed version of the release up-
grader
--no-focus-on-map
Do not focus on map when starting
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
SEE ALSO
Synaptic, sources.list, aptitude
AUTHORS
update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> with var-
ious contributors (see AUTHORS file)
This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael
Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Canonical
There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the
terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about
these matters, see the files named COPYING.
April 15, 2010 UPDATE-MANAGER(8)
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