Arve Bersvendsen

Command-line usability

On doing a quick check of what update-manager can actually do, I did what I should and checked which command line options are available, and found a little usability gem (highlighted):

arve@carnage:~$ update-manager -help
Usage: update-manager [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -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, --dist-ugprade
                        Try to run a dist-upgrade

I like that. Another typo-helper is to locate the nearest shell and do sudo apt-get install sl. You’ll quickly learn to type ls correctly.