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I.e. if you apt-get upgrade ..did upgrade your kernel you will have to reboot to make use of it.<br />
It does state that...but it does not ask you to reboot.
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I.e. if you apt-get upgrade ..did upgrade your kernel you will have to reboot to make use of it.
It does state that...but it does not ask you to reboot.

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Thank you!<br />
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May I assume that a package can indicate a reboot is necessary, so? <br />
So far I did not upgrade a kernel image on the command line, for example.<br />
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Thank you!

May I assume that a package can indicate a reboot is necessary, so?
So far I did not upgrade a kernel image on the command line, for example.



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If using a GUI, e.g. the default GNOME GUI on Ubuntu, after upgrading packages sometimes the information is displayed that rebooting the system is necessary.<br />
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When working on the command line e.g.<br />
sudo apt-get update<br />
sudo apt-get upgrade<br />
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or <br />
sudo aptitude update<br />
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade<br />
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usually no such information is offered.<br />
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How do I know? How do the GUI tools now?
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If using a GUI, e.g. the default GNOME GUI on Ubuntu, after upgrading packages sometimes the information is displayed that rebooting the system is necessary.

When working on the command line e.g.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

or 
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

usually no such information is offered.

How do I know? How do the GUI tools now?

How to know if rebooting the system is necessary after package upgrades?

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