Man page 8 : update-manager

update-manager - graphical management of software packages updates

update-manager [options]

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.

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

* eventually reinstall the package ubuntu-desktop * switch to an updated sources.list entries * adds the default user to new groups if needed

Synaptic, sources.list, aptitude

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

This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt <>.

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.