Hi Actually sometimes you do need to reboot. I have experience of upgraded programs not working until the system is rebooted.
John Eayrs On Tuesday 07 May 2013 14:43:25 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 15 March 2013 22:38:55 john lewis wrote: > > I too had similar thoughts when I read the book, the author knows too > > much about Linux to have written that without knowing he was writing > > 'nonsense' but I guess he is aware that there will be many windows > > users reading it who will expect several reboots following installation > > of a techy package like an anonomizer. > > I went on a Raspberry Pi workshop on Friday, located in the Computing > Department of Protsdmouth University. One university computing student > wandered in and joined in with me and my "partner". She reckoned to know > Linux. > > The organiser of the workshop told us to apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, > and then reboot, and I was wondering why on earth we needed to reboot.* > The student said: "You have to reboot after you update." Erm... not in > Linux/Debian. "Of course you have to reboot after an update!" Erm... No, > you don't - unless there is a new kernel. At that point (luckily) she > gave up on that and went on to the next problem. > > Not bad for an average man or woman in the street, but worrying in a > computing student who said that she knew Linux!! > > Lisi > > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, the > answer was "To check that everything is O.K." -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
