Why would anyone need to manually update the phone from a terminal Window? Like Android, the phone will notify you when updates are ready. Then all you need to do is tap to allow the update. For things that the phone will do for you, you’re better running with the pack. If Purism accidentally pushes out anything harmful, the first few people who are affected will complain. The problem will then be fixed, probably before you can even be affected. You could probably recompile the kernel yourself too. But why would one need to do that? Keep everything easy until you can’t do something that you want to do through any other means.
Several reasons.
- The automatic notification in the GUI only happens every X hours. If you want to install an update sooner than that then installing it manually is the right approach (but I guess you can trigger that in the GUI with more taps if you want).
- The GUI interface for installing (and deinstalling) has been known to exhibit problems, problems that don’t happen when using
apt. - The command line interface gives more explicit control over the exact type of upgrade (regular or full) whereas it may not be obvious which you are getting when using the GUI.
- The name as known in the GUI interface may be different from the package name as used in the command line interface, so if someone refers to an actual package name that you need to install, it may be simpler and more reliable to use the command line interface.
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thanks the purism docs described the reinstall for pureos core apps well! i was looking on the forum and tyese were the wrong once to install- no issue anymore.