apt upgrade full-upgrade or dist-upgrade, what to use?

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Fri Sep 19 06:48:33 UTC 2025


On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 08:37 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> but now I see in a post here use of dist-upgrade and I don't know the
> difference between them (are there still other variations?).

I've been using Ubuntu since 2006 and Linux since about 1995 and I
*still* don't really grasp the differences between upgrade, dist-
upgrade and full-upgrade :-)

One day I'll find an article that explains it so I can understand.

Regards, K.

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