Full upgrade request from Ubuntu updater

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:17:41PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 11:59, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:50:06AM +0000, REUBY Dianne via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > > Apologies to those on the UK list who have already seen this - I posted there by mistake.
> > >
> > > I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS which was pre-installed on my laptop when
> > > I bought it last year. This week my updater gave me a window with this
> > > command, asking of course for my password:
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/lubuntu-upgrader --cache-update --full-upgrade
> > >
> > > My settings are all updates, check daily, download and install security
> > > automatically, display other updates immediately, Livepatch on.
> > >
> > > I needed to use the "Show apps" button today, which I rarely do, and saw
> > > the full upgrade was still sitting there.
> > >
> > > What do I do with this? I don't want to do a full upgrade to Lubuntu, but
> > > cancel closes it yet leaves it in my apps.
> > >
> > You probably do want to do a "full upgrade", it doesn't mean to
> > upgrade to the next version, it means to sort out more complex
> > dependency issues than a standard upgrade can manage.
> 
> That is assuming that full-upgrade for lubuntu-upgrader is the same as
> for apt.  Hopefully it is.  I can't find any documentation for that
> s/w, though I did not look for long.
> 
Yes, that was the assumption I was making.  Presumably there will be
some sort of feedback if you take the option - e.g. the "this will use
XMb of disk space - do you want to continue?", it should be fairly
obvious what it's aiming to do.

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Chris Green