Ubuntu Linux: What's the Command Line Equivalent to Update Manager

Xah Lee, 2013-01-25

Ubuntu: Update Manager, What's the Command Line Equivalent?

when i do

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

but sometimes the Ubuntu GUI Update Manager still have some items left. ⁖ “Complete Generic Linux kernel”.

i know there's also do sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, but that touches other things.

my question is, what's other command line option, that i can use that'd update the rest of items shown in GUI update manager (but doesn't touch anything else extra). In other words, am looking for command line equivalent.

posted to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14533976/command-line-equivalent-for-ubuntu-update-manager