Lawrence, I only wanted to inform, that from command line apt-get is not the official Ubuntu package management tool anymore. It is apt. For command line gdebi is replaced by apt, too. For scripts and very old Ubuntu releases it remains to be apt-get.
My information is not related to the GUIs. In regards to reboots, it never is necessary to reboot, it just is required, if a user wants to use e.g. an upgraded kernel, but actually it's possible to continue using an old kernel, even if it was purged, it's still in the memory. In short, yes, command line doesn't inform if you need to reboot, simply because there is no need to reboot. If a user expects new features that aren't available, then it's a general troubleshooting rule to reboot. Without rebooting nothing evil could happen. There are reasons why Ubuntu migrated to apt and why we should start to explain novices how to use apt, instead of apt-get. Apart from eye-candy, there's one important apt default setting that differs to the default setting of apt-get. By default apt doesn't keep packages in cache. It's possible to change the default settings for apt as well as apt-get, however, by default they don't share the same settings. The confusing name "dist-upgrade" was replaced by "full-upgrade". Not only gdebi is replaced by apt, also a few dpkg commands became unnecessary when using apt. Recommending apt-get, gdebi and a few dpkg commands only makes sense if we don't know what release of Ubuntu is used, or if scripts should use a command with pipes and things like this. If we know that somebody does use a new release of Ubuntu Studio, it's better if Ubuntu flavour mailing lists follow common practise of Ubuntu mailing lists, this is to explain usage of apt. As soon as the last supported release not providing apt reaches end of life, the Wiki/help pages should be edited, IOW apt-get should be replaced by apt. Sure, apt-get still is safe and doesn't harm, other then the frowned upon aptitude, it's not bad to mention apt-get. The reason to prefer mentioning apt over apt-get is, that for the Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu flavours desktop main target group apt introduced more user-friendliness. Regards, Ralf -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
