Today’s article will be a nice basic article, where we discuss how to update Ubuntu in the terminal. It seems like a fine article to write and one that not everyone will be versed in. There are lots of folks who don’t use the terminal for much of anything. Then, there are people like me who use the terminal for all sorts of stuff.
If you know how to update Ubuntu in the terminal, this really won’t be a very interesting article. We’ll just be covering the basics and I’ll explain how I do it. You’ll see that I tend to throw caution to the wind and just blindly hope for the best. This strategy is fine for me, ’cause I can fix pretty much anything. (I can fix pretty much anything because I’ve broken pretty much everything.)
Of course, this article applies to Debian. This article applies to Linux Mint. This article should apply to anything that uses apt as the package manager. So, if your distro is related to Debian then this will probably work just fine for you.
Well, there’s no reason to make the intro any longer… I think I’ve covered all that you need to know to get started.
Update Ubuntu In The Terminal:
As you can guess, we need an open terminal if we’re going to update Ubuntu in the terminal. That only stands to reason… Press
With your terminal now open, let’s update the list of software that’s available. Let’s see what software can be updated. To do that, you just run: