dist-upgrade in ubuntu

[José Antonio Rey]

And sudo do-release-upgrade upgrades the release itself.

On 04/14/2013 07:03 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
> From the man pages for apt:-
> 
> *sudo apt-get upgrade*
> *
> *
> *upgrade *is used to install the newest versions of all packages
> currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
> /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions
> available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are
> currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed
> retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed packages
> that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another
> package will be left at their current version. An update must be
> performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are
> available.
> 
> *sudo apt-get dist-upgrade*
> *
> **dist-upgrade* in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also
> intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of
> packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will
> attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less
> important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade command may remove some
> packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations
> from which to retrieve desired package files. See also
> apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general settings
> for individual packages.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Istimsak Abdulbasir
> <saqman2060 at gmail.com <mailto:saqman2060 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Is this right command to update a ubuntu system?
> 
>     sudo dist-upgrade #not sure if I spelled it right
> 
>     What is the difference from apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade?
> 
>     Istimak Abdulbasir
> 
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