selecting specific updates from terminal

[raja.genupula]

i know selecting updates from update manager , i am curious to know to do this from terminal . am i able to do this ?


thanks in advance .

[bcschmerker]

The standard procedure from GNOME Terminal, KDE Konsole, XTerm, KTerm, &c. goes through BASh or equivalent to call APT-Get. From GMONE Terminal, for example:

gksudo -S apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

[raja.genupula]

The standard procedure from GNOME Terminal, KDE Konsole, XTerm, KTerm, &c. goes through BASh or equivalent to call APT-Get. From GMONE Terminal, for example:

gksudo -S apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
hey i got this


Fetched 873 kB in 1min 20s (10.9 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

[oldos2er]

You need to use sudo with both commands
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[raja.genupula]

hi oldos2er
do you remember , after opening update manager ,we can select what output we want and what we dont want .
so i just wanna do this from terminal . selecting the required from the terminal .

thanks in advance

[raja.genupula]

can any one give me support on this ?

[saltmarshlamb]

To update a specific package(s) reinstall it(them)


sudo apt-get install --reinstall package1 package2 package3

[raja.genupula]

thank you :S