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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By : Arturo Fernandez Montoro
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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By: Arturo Fernandez Montoro

Overview of this book

<p>System administrators are responsible for keeping servers and workstations working properly. They perform actions to get a secure, stable, and robust operating system. In order to do that, system administrators perform actions such as monitoring, accounts maintenance, restoring backups, and software installation. All these actions and tasks are crucial to business success.<br /><br />"Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide" is a practical and concise guide that offers you clear step-by-step exercises to learn good practices, commands, tools, and tips and tricks to convert users into system administrators in record time.<br /><br />You’ll learn how to perform basic operations, such as create user accounts and install software. Moving forward, we’ll find out more about important tasks executed daily by system administrators.</p> <p><br />Data and information are very important so you’ll learn how to create and restore backups. You will also learn about one of the most important points of an operating system: security.</p> <p><br />Thanks to "Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide", you’ll learn all the basics you need to install and keep a robust and reliable Linux Mint operating system up to date.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Linux Mint System Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – upgrading software through the Update Manager tool


Now we're going to find out which software is ready to be upgraded and then proceed to install it:

  1. Click on the Menu button on the bottom panel, and then click on the All Applications button located in the right-hand side of the Favorites pane. Now you can see a menu option called Administration; click on it to display a new menu, where you can see the Update Manager menu option, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. After clicking on the Update Manager menu option, an application with the same name will be launched, as can been seen here:

  3. Update Manager displays a list with only a single package that can be upgraded. Click on the Install Updates button.

  4. The upgrading process for the mintupdate package will be launched; when this process is finished, you will see a complete list of available software that can be upgraded.

  5. Right now, you're ready to select the packages that you want to upgrade. It's good practice to select all...