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> Why manually? "I know you're about to do this thing real quick that needs to get done, but a new version is available! Would you like to twiddle your thumbs for 5 minutes while watching a progress bar?".

That's a very Windows-centric point of view. Programs on Linux can be updated without closing them. You get the new version when you restart them.

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It only works if they are self contained without access additional resources on the file system, as the executable file is kept alive until process termination.

Now if the process tries to access some datafiles that changed contents during the upgrade, it might just crash and burn, eventually corrupting data in the process.

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sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && echo 'All done!, rebooting' && sudo reboot now

For everything else.

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