Friday, August 25, 2017
Ubuntu 12 04 LTS Receives new Kernel Update
Ubuntu 12 04 LTS Receives new Kernel Update
Ubuntu-12.04 LTS- Receives new Kernel Update
Keeping your computer software uptodate is the single most important task for protecting your system. Ubuntu can alert you to pending updates, and also be configured to apply updates automatically. Security updates for Ubuntu are announced via Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs).
Now how to update Ubuntu-12.04 Desktop edition.
By default, users are notified daily for security updates and weekly for non-security updates. How Ubuntu alerts you as well as configuring your system to install updates automatically can be setup within Update Manager. You can access Update Manager anytime by pressing Alt+F2, entering update-manager and pressing Enter. Its settings can be adjusted by pressing the Settings button.
Once Update Manager is open, you can review and select pending updates as well as check for new updates. Simply press the Install Updates button to upgrade the selected packages to the updated version.You can also update through terminal by giving this command.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade OR sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
How to update & upgrade Ubuntu-12.04 server edition.
If the update-notifier-common package is installed, Ubuntu will alert you about pending updates via the message of the day (motd) upon console or remote login.
After logging in, you can check for and apply new updates with:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
When performing an update, first review what apt is going to do, then confirm that you want to apply the updates (this is particularly true when running the development release).
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