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SlackRoll v21 (Default branch)
SlackRoll is a package or upgrade manager for Slackware Linux. It is designed to work with official mirrors in systems mainly composed of official packages with a few unofficial packages. It lets you automatically upgrade or install packages, and displays which packages have been added or removed from the Slackware tree.License: Public DomainChanges:
Packages only present in the /pasture/ tree are never marked as NEW by default. They are directly marked as NOT-INSTALLED.Image

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update-manager

UPDATE-MANAGER(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 UPDATE-MANAGER(8)

NAME

       update-manager - graphical management of software packages updates

SYNOPSIS

       update-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Update-manager  is a frontend for the apt package management system. It allows you to perform some actions of the command line tool apt-get
       in a graphical environment.

       Update-manager is especially designed for upgrading your system, or migrating your system towards a more recent version.

OPTIONS

       For a daily use, you may launch update-manager with no options so that your system is just upgraded.

       For migration purposes, update-manager accepts some options:

       -h, --help
	      Show a similar help message

       -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
	      Try to run a dist-upgrade

ACTIONS PERFORMED DURING AN UPGRADE TO A NEW VERSION

       * eventually reinstall the package ubuntu-desktop

       * switch to an updated sources.list entries

       * adds the default user to new groups if needed

SEE ALSO

       Synaptic, sources.list, aptitude

AUTHORS

       update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> with various contributors (see AUTHORS file)

       This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C)  2006-2007 Canonical

       There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software under the terms of  the  GNU General  Public License.	For more information about
       these matters, see the files named COPYING.

								  August 2, 2007						 UPDATE-MANAGER(8)