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Follow these steps:
- Open up a terminal window.
- Issue the command sudo apt-get upgrade.
- Enter your user’s password.
- Look over the list of available updates (see Figure 2) and decide if you want to go through with the entire upgrade.
- To accept all updates click the ‘y’ key (no quotes) and hit Enter.
How do I upgrade a specific package in Ubuntu?
How to Ubuntu upgrade or update a single package
- Open the Terminal application.
- Fetch package index by running sudo apt update command.
- Now only update apache2 package by running sudo apt install apache2 command.
- If apache2 package already installed it will try to update to the latest version.
How do you update a package?
Upgrading a Single Package. You can upgrade a single package by running apt-get install . Perform an update first so that the APT cache is populated with the latest package information. To see if a package needs to be upgraded, run the apt-cache show <pkgname> command to show the latest version number of the package.