[orca-list] orca and an updated ubuntu system

[MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 btinternet com>]

How do I tell as a beginner user to Ubuntu if my updating and upgrading 
of Ubuntu has been sucessful?
I have done both the sudo-apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade but 
you get a lot of verbal information about what the system is trying to 
fetch and Orca doesn't exactly say anything such as "update Successful" 
or "upgrade successful" so I am wondering if there had been errors I 
would have been told that "package such and such couldn't be updated or 
upgraded."
As someone just starting with Ubuntu it is verry difficult for a newby 
to tell whether there has been any problems. As far as I am aware Orca 
hasn't seemed to have flagged any although when I did a sudo apt-get 
upgrade I did hear something about Python problem unless Orca was 
refering to fixes for Python so I don't know if what it was saying 
during the upgrade was a genuine problem. at the end it seemed to do a 
removing such and such and building such and such so is this something 
it normally does when successful?