apt-get not updating GUI packages?

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 at 16:36, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <
hylton at conacher.co.za> wrote:

> Hi,

> I run Ubuntu 16.04 as a Dovecot mailserver and to keep the system
> patched am religiously using ssh to sign into the machine and run both
> of the following commands:
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade

That 2nd command should be

apt-get dist-upgrade

... and "apt-get" is deprecated in recent years and the more modern version
is:

apt update
apt full-upgrade -y

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