How to Update and Upgrade Ubuntu

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Step 1 – Apt Update

The apt update command gets you an updated list of packages from the Internet that are available for you to download, this step must be done before the actual upgrade of the packages on your system.

				
					apt update
				
			

Feel free to use the command above, hover your cursor over the up right corner of the box to see the COPY option that allows You to quickly copy the code with a simple click.

Step 2 – Apt Upgrade

Immediately after the package list is updated, You can run the apt upgrade to install available upgrades of all packages currently installed on your system.

				
					apt upgrade
				
			

Feel free to use the command above, hover your cursor over the up right corner of the box to see the COPY option that allows You to quickly copy the code with a simple click.

 The following video shows the second and most important step, where the packages get upgraded to the latest version available:

https://apache2.ciscoar.com/wp-content/uploads/1643/73/ubuntu-apt-upgrade.mp4

Where to go next?

Now that all the packages on your Operating System are up to date You can go ahead and create a new admin user that will have “sudo” access, this task can be divided in two parts, first you create a normal user and after that you include the user on the sudo group.