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Updating Your Ubuntu Server From The Command Line
by Cory Rauch 2007-06-03 Category: Linux-System

Ubuntu Desktop is popular with linux desktop crowd, but how do you apply updates from the command line in Ubuntu server (No Gui)?

Actually its pretty simple since Ubuntu is basically a derivative of Debian. Just like Debian you first update sources like so:

# apt-get update

Then search for updates like so:

# apt-get dist-upgrade

If it finds any updates it will prompt you if you want to upgrade with a list of packages it will upgrade if you say yes. After upgrading your server software in some cases you made need to restart (kernel upgrades for example).

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