Sorry I should have mentioned the laptop is an old cheep dell i3 w/ 2 
cores and 4 threads and 4Gb of RAM. I put Kubuntu 20.04 on it some time 
ago.  I do not recall when.  Maybe 6 months ago.

Okay I see Discover->update.  Now I need to recover my password.

Thanks Brian!!
Keith


On 2022-10-24 16:43, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> If it's really old, there might not be a good native one,  most
> people just recommended to load synaptic.  More recently there is
> Discover and muon.
> 
> If this is the laptop that you haven't used in 6ish years, it may be
> running kubuntu 16.04 and that is no longer supported, so your
> upgrades will fail.
> I'd recommend backing up your home directory and then doing a fresh
> install.  If you haven't used Kubuntu since you put that laptop aside,
> you're in for a real treat.  It's a lot leaner, faster, and just a joy
> to use compared to years ago.  While KDE classically took a lot of
> it's look and feel from windows you'll likely notice that it's come
> back around and now Microsoft has been taking features from KDE.
> 
> Brian Cluff
> 
> On 10/24/22 15:34, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I pulled out an old laptop and it already has Kubuntu on it.  I want
>> to do a package update and during my research it appears I need to
>> do an apt update on the command line.  Is there not a desktop
>> utility to do this?  Not afraid of the command line just want to
>> learn how to run a desktop system.
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
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