Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Colin Law]

On 4 October 2017 at 19:25, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> and my understanding is that
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> upgrades the distribution, or version, to the latest current one;
> hence, 16.04 to 17.10 ; LTS to non-LTS.
>
> In the context of all of the material in that message, it inferred,
> or, implied, that
> apt-get dist-upgrade = apt full-upgrade

If you re-read the thread you will see that (contrary to my earlier
statement) these commands are not equivalent and neither will upgrade
to the next version of the distribution. If you want to do that the
command, I think, is
do-release-upgrade

Colin