Updating Ubuntu

Previous: Toshiba Satellite Ubuntu-Vista dual-boot configuration.

With the basic install of Ubuntu done, it was time to bring the instance up to date. To do that, I ran the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential

The first two commands download and install various software updates for the OS.

The build-essential package consists of C header files, libraries, compilers and so forth necessary for building software.

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