Software update problem

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 23:54:05 UTC 2016


On 24 October 2016 at 23:30, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> Running 'autoclean' after 'clean' makes no sense. Liam most likely made
> a typo, this probably should read.

Oops, sorry, my mistake!

I misunderstood what "autoclean" did compared to "clean". No, I didn't mean

> sudo apt autoremove

... I'm not that brave!

> 'apt dist-upgrade' works, but we should avoid using this apt-get option
> with apt and replace it by 'full-upgrade'.
>
> sudo apt full-upgrade -y

I did not know about this new option.

> IMO we shouldn't run apt non-interactively, I would remove -y, aka
> --yes, --assume-yes, IOW I recommend to run
>
> sudo apt full-upgrade

Well, we've disagreed on that one before. In this instance I do
``-y'', yes. Not on ``autoremove'' though.

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