UPDATE-MANAGER(8)

📦 version 26.10.1, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet update-manager — she's the one doing graphical management of software packages updates 💅 (yes she's a section 8 system manager's manual girlie, iykyk).

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

update-manager [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So update-manager is a frontend for the apt package management system, no cap. She lets you do a bunch of the stuff that the command line tool apt-get does, but in a graphical environment — like, with windows and buttons and vibes ✨.

And she's especially designed for upgrading your system, or migrating your system towards a more recent version 👑. That's literally her whole main character arc.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

For a daily use situation, you can just launch update-manager with no options at all and your system is just upgraded, easy peasy 🍓.

But 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 development release 🧪
  • -p, --proposed — Upgrade using the latest proposed version of the release upgrader 🚀
  • --no-focus-on-map — Do not focus on map when starting 🙈

🌈 ACTIONS PERFORMED DURING AN UPGRADE TO A NEW VERSION 🌈

the way that she does all of this when you upgrade to a new version, obsessed:

  • 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 — go read those too bestie, they're iconic.

💜 AUTHORS 💜

update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> with various contributors (see AUTHORS file) 🫶.

This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>.

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.

like, fr fr, no warranty at all, so don't come for her if something goes sideways 😭.

and that's the whole thing, bestie 💖 — this page came straight out of the System Manager's Manual, version date April 15, 2010, and it's giving UPDATE-MANAGER(8) realness. slay, read responsibly, periodt 💅✨

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