Keeping your ubuntu system up to date

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A short and easy way to keep ubuntu up to date is simply to run the following command

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude --assume-yes safe-upgrade

Assuming you have an active network connection at this time, this will download and install pending updates. If prompted for password, enter the password you use to login to ubuntu.

Update: Ubuntu maverick users may not have aptitude installed by default. To install aptitude, run the following command.

sudo apt-get install aptitude

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