apt-get upgrade is just the command for upgrading your currently installed
packages. "do-release-upgrade" will attempt to upgrade you from one stable
release to the next, however it stays within the release category, so since
you're running 12.04 LTS, there are no newer releases yet (at least not
until 14.04 goes gold), so even that command should do nothing. Even if
there were a new release, it'd ask you several times before actually going
through with it.

Pleasantly,
Ronald Bynoe
On Mar 18, 2014 1:33 PM, "Dick Steffens" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/18/2014 12:17 PM, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> > What happens if you run an update from a terminal? These are the two
> > relevant commands:
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get update
> [sudo] password for rsteff:
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/'http could not be found.
>
> That probably has something to do with it. :-)
>
> I Googled the error message and found:
>
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/165676/how-do-i-fix-a-e-the-method-driver-usr-lib-apt-methods-http-could-not-be-foun
>
> The second recommended fix was to check /etc/apt/sources.list and,
>
>      Make sure there are no quotation marks ' ' or " ":
>
> followed by an example. Sure enough, one of the ppas had single quotes
> around it. I took out those quotes and reran sudo apt-tet update. It was
> unable to get a lock. I ran Update Manager and it worked. Then I ran
> sudo apt-get update again and, while it didn't do anything other than
> check, it did that and completed.
>
> > sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> IIRC this would try to take me from 12.04 to something newer, which I
> don't want to do.
>
> Thanks for the ideas.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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