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Ubuntu search way manually updating

Asked by Gunnar Helander

My computor started the update process of 46 updates but the process was interupted and signs showed there was some other programs working and should bee closed. So I stopped the update process.

How can I find a way to manually search for updates and download?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

hello

Please tell us any errors if you are getting precisely...

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Best sasha (sasha123-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

First of all you have to find the cause of the problem, try to use 'ps -ef | grep -i update' command to find the processes which are trying to update the system.

Anyway you can use following commands to keep you system up to date:

get the list of updates from the repositories:

sudo apt-get update

install available updates:

sudo apt-get upgrade

sometimes you need to upgrade you systems to the next version:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

search the package:

sudo apt-cache search package_name

find more:

sudo apt-cache --help
sudo apt-get --help

You can also try aptitude utility but it's not so easy to use it for newbies.

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Gunnar Helander (guhe) said : 		#3

Thank you so much for your answer!
It has solved my problem!
Best regards
Gunnar Helander