[Solved]How do all of you do updates - The procedure?

[CtrlAltDel]

My procedure is to open synaptic package manager, click refresh, and then close it. After that, I go down to the update manager icon on the task bar and right click it and hit refresh. After all of that, it will finally tell me if I have any available updates.

Every now and then, it's very rare, the update manager will turn blue on it's own without me opening synaptic and forcing the issue.

Otherwise, I have to enter the password for synaptic and refresh it and go through that whole routine to make it acknowledge that updates are available. Then, when the update manager icon turns blue, indicating updates, I click on it and have to enter my password again to actually be able to install the updates.

This seems kind of convoluted and a lot of hoops to jump through to get updates. Is this pretty much normal for all of you or is something a little off on my end? I'm the only user of the computer and, as far as I know, have admin. privileges.

[sagirfahmid3]

Easy and lazy way:
Terminal > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Done. Don't need fancy shmancy Synaptic (mainly used by n00bs).

[zerozero]

CtrlAltDel,
you don't need the extra synaptic step, if you click the mintupdate icon, enter your password when prompted it will refresh the repos and present you the available updates (if any);

usually this should happen automatically: whenever new updates were available the icon would change to a blue exclamation point but there's several reports that this is not always working;

you are doing the same task in double

My procedure is to open synaptic package manager, click refresh, and then close it. After that, I go down to the update manager icon on the task bar and right click it and hit refresh

sagirfahmid3
synaptic is the best GUI package manager, period.

[CtrlAltDel]

Easy and lazy way:
Terminal > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Done. Don't need fancy shmancy Synaptic (mainly used by n00bs).

Thanks, safirfahmid.

[CtrlAltDel]

CtrlAltDel,
you don't need the extra synaptic step, if you click the mintupdate icon, enter your password when prompted it will refresh the repos and present you the available updates (if any);

usually this should happen automatically: whenever new updates were available the icon would change to a blue exclamation point but there's several reports that this is not always working;

you are doing the same task in double

My procedure is to open synaptic package manager, click refresh, and then close it. After that, I go down to the update manager icon on the task bar and right click it and hit refresh

Wow, yeah, that's pretty simple zerozero. I have absolutely, as you say, been doing twice the amount that I needed to.

Thanks.

[kimboinatl]

Easy and lazy way:
Terminal > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This is what I do. Easiest way I've found so far.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

[CtrlAltDel]

Easy and lazy way:
Terminal > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This is what I do. Easiest way I've found so far.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Thanks, kimboinatl. Thanks to everyone. I'll go ahead and mark it solved.

[zerozero]

regarding the usage of dist-upgrade in main mint i think this topic has some answers for the dangers it might bring >> viewtopic.php?f=109&t=108824

[kimboinatl]

regarding the usage of dist-upgrade in main mint i think this topic has some answers for the dangers it might bring >> viewtopic.php?f=109&t=108824

Thanks for posting that!

[zerozero]

you're welcome

[TheForumTroll]

Apt-get is great, but I would recommend using aptitude instead