By now, most of us are aware of the Update manager in Ubuntu which can be found from the Main menu by selecting System | Administration | Update Manager but some of our updates are applied by use of a script which runs hourly on each Linux laptop. If something has caused those updates to be interrupted, you may find that your computer is not up to date. It is not a bad idea to manually run these updates once a week and even necessary when you find that something is not working or if your X120 (which seniors and juniors have) keeps locking up randomly to force you to power it off. Here is how you can manually run the BCFG2 updates in order to help your computer provide you with the best service possible.
From the Main Menu go to Accessories and then Terminal.
A text window will pop up on your desktop. At the command prompt in this window type in the command between these arrows ---> sudo bcfg2 –vdq <--- and press enter.
You may be prompted for your password but you will see nothing on your screen when you type it so type carefully.
Finally, when you see the end of the script, your screen will look something like this:
When you see the prompt with the $ at the end of it, you can type “exit” (without the quotes) to close the terminal window.
Congratulations, you have successfully updated your Linux laptop.
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