You never *need* to reboot unless you upgrade the kernel, otherwise
you just need to reboot the services you have updated. Once you restart all
the services that were updated it should behave just like you rebooted.
However, sometimes it is easier and quicker to just reboot... Quite often,
a logout and back in is enough for gui programs. But you never *need* to
reboot for everything but the kernel.
On 7 May 2013 15:11, john <jee@???> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Actually sometimes you do need to reboot. I have experience of upgraded
> programs not working until the system is rebooted.
>
> John Eayrs
>
> On Tuesday 07 May 2013 14:43:25 Lisi wrote:
> > On Friday 15 March 2013 22:38:55 john lewis wrote:
> > > I too had similar thoughts when I read the book, the author knows too
> > > much about Linux to have written that without knowing he was writing
> > > 'nonsense' but I guess he is aware that there will be many windows
> > > users reading it who will expect several reboots following installation
> > > of a techy package like an anonomizer.
> >
> > I went on a Raspberry Pi workshop on Friday, located in the Computing
> > Department of Protsdmouth University. One university computing student
> > wandered in and joined in with me and my "partner". She reckoned to know
> > Linux.
> >
> > The organiser of the workshop told us to apt-get update, apt-get upgrade,
> > and then reboot, and I was wondering why on earth we needed to reboot.*
> > The student said: "You have to reboot after you update." Erm... not in
> > Linux/Debian. "Of course you have to reboot after an update!" Erm...
> No,
> > you don't - unless there is a new kernel. At that point (luckily) she
> > gave up on that and went on to the next problem.
> >
> > Not bad for an average man or woman in the street, but worrying in a
> > computing student who said that she knew Linux!!
> >
> > Lisi
> >
> > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, the
> > answer was "To check that everything is O.K."
>
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