First time I had to use the terminal
Ubuntu has a lot of updates.. its like every time I run the system, which is a couple of times per week. So.. I have tried to update the system many times, but with the update manager which is a tool that takes care of all the hard work and presents an easy to understand user interface. So basicly, its really easy to update, all you have to do is press the check button and wait for the update check to finish, then press the install button. Thats it.
Except if there is errors of course. That’s exactly what just happened. When I tryed to install updates I got an error message, it told me what to do: go to the console and execute the following command. My first thought was that I now had to get into all the console stuff and understand how it all worked to be able to complete this, but no. I put the line in, hit enter and waited (as root). It finished and I tryed the update manager again, problem solved.
I did get a single error during the command line stuff, but I ignored it though and tryed and see what would happen. It seems the error is nothing important.
My conclusion here is that even though you have an error and you need to use the terminal, still you need not think, since Ubuntu tells you what to do. Suits me very well.