I have a Ubuntu Root since years and sometimes upgraded the Ubuntu version whenever my hosting provider offered an update or if I was brave enough to update it.
Anyway, as of now it acts as a private webspace for my family and friends and runs Parallels Plesk 12.5
Plesk has no support for Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS so far,so that means I have to stick with 14.04.5 LTS.
As you can see from the topic title, the kernel is rather outdated. If i run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, it helds back all packages for kernel updates, which are:
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
I only learned about APT (not APT-GET) today and ran apt upgrade and there it offered me to update to the following kernel:
linux-headers-3.13.0-100 linux-headers-3.13.0-100-generic linux-image-3.13.0-100 generic and linux-image-extra-3.13.0-100-generic.
I have been out of the loop for a while and I'm slightly confused.
Should I stick to apt-get upgrade and let it tell me, that it keeps those updates back or should I trust apt and let it install those updates? Is dist-upgrade another solution?
PS:
I mostly got to updating the kernel, since I just read about a privilege-escalation bug within the kernel.
Cheers,
Maxunit
aptorapt-getyou will get the offer to update the kernel with both commands. and you should perform the upgrade. Please take a look at the answer in this question – mook765 Oct 21 '16 at 07:08sudo apt-get dist-upgrade– grooveplex Oct 21 '16 at 11:59