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Updating Your Linux Ubuntu System

Maximus Mccullough | June 3, 2016

If you are like me you like to use the terminal commands to update your linux Ubuntu System. Its fast and easy if you know the command. I am putting the command lines in this article so you can copy and paste them.

First login as root then navigate to your root folder.

sudo su  #logs you in as root
cd / #navigates you to the root folder

sudo apt-get update        # Fetches the list of available updates
sudo apt-get upgrade       # Strictly upgrades the current packages
sudo apt-get install --fix-missing    #fixes anything missing that it can fix
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade  # Installs updates (new ones)

Enter the three lines above in order and you will have an updated machine.