upgrading ubuntu

[TheOldWiseKing]

Hi,...

I used apg-get dist upgrade to upgrade from dapper to edgy, while I use
apt-get upgrade just to upgrade currently installed software, and it's used
only if upgrades are available on repositories.

Regards,...

TheOldWiseKing

On 4/3/07, Paul Dwerryhouse <paul at dwerryhouse.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:01:53AM +0100, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
> > I have still a lot to learn about Linux and Ubuntu but is there a
> > difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist upgrade?
>
> apt-get upgrade will not add any new packages, or remove any that are
> already installed.
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade can add and remove packages, for example, when a
> single package is replaced with a number of other packages.
>
> To go from one major version to the next, you probably want to use
> apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
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