Questions about updates. This is a very general tag. If you have a tag that's more specific (e.g. the package name that your question is about) please use that one.
Questions tagged [updates]
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How to install updates via command line?
When I log into my web server via SSH I see the information:
88 packages can be updated.
80 updates are security updates
I tried apt-get update then apt-get upgrade but each time I log in I still see the message about updates. How do I install…
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What does "sudo apt-get update" do?
I am wondering what sudo apt-get update does?
What does it update?
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How to prevent updating of a specific package?
Because of bug #693758 I'd like to prevent apt-get upgrade and Update Manager from updating the "libgtk2.0-0" package.
How can this be achieved?
Ivan
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How can I install just security updates from the command line?
sudo apt-get upgrade installs all updates, not just security updates. I know that I can use Update Manager to select only important security updates, but is there a way to do this from the command line?
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Where can I look up my update history?
Is there a place where I can look what updates I've installed?
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29 packages can be updated - How?
I see the following message when I login:
29 packages can be updated.
6 updates are security updates.
How can I perform the updates?
I tried apt-get upgrade and some stuff was installed but the message still remains.
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sudo apt update error: "Release file is not yet valid"
I keep getting this error every time I try to sudo apt update:
Hit:1 ubuntu bionic InRelease
Ign:3 linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:2 /ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:5 /linux/chrome/deb stable Release [943…
user897956
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apt-get stuck at 0 [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com]
When I do upgrade it gets stuck here:
user@plato:~# sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
…
Arian Faurtosh
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What can I do if a repository/PPA does not have a Release file?
When updating, I get the following error message:
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/mc3man/trusty-media/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
Here, I find another statement on this error: How can I fix a 404 Error when…
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How to update kernel to the latest mainline version without any Distro-upgrade?
Currently I'm running Linux-3.0 and I want to update it to Linux-3.3.1 the latest stable kernel release as mentioned at http://www.kernel.org. Can I update to 3.3.1 in Ubuntu without any risk of crashes? I'm updating my kernel regularly as provided…
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How to fix missing GPG keys?
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I added some repo, and when I did apt-get update, I got missing gpg key.
Following command seems to doesn't work for me:
apt-get update 2> /tmp/keymissing; for key in $(grep "NO_PUBKEY" /tmp/keymissing |sed…
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How do I enable automatic updates?
Update Manager is constantly offering me updates (e.g. security fixes, updates from PPAs).
How can I tell my Ubuntu installation to automatically download and install updates whenever they become available?
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"method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found" update error
sudo apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
michael@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get clean
michael@Ubuntu:~$ cd /var/lib/apt
michael@Ubuntu:/var/lib/apt$ sudo mv lists lists.old
michael@Ubuntu:/var/lib/apt$ sudo…
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Unable to update "Snap Store": cannot refresh "snap-store": snap "snap-store" has running apps (ubuntu-software)
I am a new Ubuntu 22.04 user who is facing an issue with the Snap
Store. Whenever I try to update the Snap Store I can see these error messages.
Pending update of "snap-store" snap
Close the app to avoid disruptions (13 days left)
Unable to…
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There is no public key available for the following key IDs 1397BC53640DB551
When I run the command:
sudo apt-get update
I got this following warning:
There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 1397BC53640DB551
This is the only warning I got and I do not get any Error.
How I can fix it and what the key…
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