{"id":39021,"date":"2020-03-17T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39021"},"modified":"2020-03-17T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:59:10","slug":"linux-how-to-update-lubuntu-18-04-from-the-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-how-to-update-lubuntu-18-04-from-the-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: how to update (L)ubuntu 18.04 from the terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Ubuntu Linux: the tutor mentions command-line update.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI resurrected a computer that likely hadn&#8217;t run in 8 years (or longer) using Lubuntu. It identifies, from the terminal, as Ubuntu 18.04.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI tried updating its software from the GUI but no luck: I decided to try from the terminal. Specifically, I typed in\n<\/p>\n<p>\nsudo apt update<\/p>\n<p>then gave the password. After it finished finding the updates, I typed in<\/p>\n<p>\nsudo apt upgrade<\/p>\n<p>It was a success, though the updates took quite some time to process.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxconfig.org\/how-to-update-ubuntu-packages-on-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux\">linuxconfig.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Ubuntu Linux: the tutor mentions command-line update. I resurrected a computer that likely hadn&#8217;t run in 8 years (or longer) using Lubuntu. It identifies, from the terminal, as Ubuntu 18.04. I tried updating its software from the GUI &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-how-to-update-lubuntu-18-04-from-the-terminal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux: how to update (L)ubuntu 18.04 from the terminal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39022,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021\/revisions\/39022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}