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tazz4vr
May 25th, 2012, 03:30 AM
Sorry for the newbie question, but.....

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Normally I will allow all updates that are showing in my Update Manager. My question is when these new updates are installed, do they automatically over-ride any previous ones? If not, should I be deleting them?

madverb
May 25th, 2012, 03:46 AM
No, you don't need to worry about that.

raja.genupula
May 25th, 2012, 03:52 AM
Sorry for the newbie question, but.....

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Normally I will allow all updates that are showing in my Update Manager. My question is when these new updates are installed, do they automatically over-ride any previous ones? If not, should I be deleting them?

what ever the updates they will be in /var/cache/apt location and you can remove them and unwanted ,not necessary updates you can remove by doing like


sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

this will take care .

tazz4vr
May 25th, 2012, 05:13 PM
Thank you both for info... I guess my only concern would be manually removing something that is thought to be old or not needed, and in turn, I really needed it!

So for now, I think I will stick with the 'auto' part of the clean up.

raja.genupula
May 25th, 2012, 06:05 PM
cool ! now mark the thread as solved from thread tools .