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 migrating 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

-c, --check-dist-upgrades

Check if a new distribution release is available

-d, --devel-release

Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible

-p, --proposed

Try to run a dist-upgrade

--dist-upgrade

Try to run a dist-upgrade

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

AUTHORS

update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <[email protected]> with various contributors (see AUTHORS file)

This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt <[email protected]>.

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.