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

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 07:24:13 UTC 2025


On Fri, 19 Sept 2025 at 08:10, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> * Upgrade the entire system to a newer release.

Sorry, that is wrong, it is do-release-upgrade that upgrades the os to
a new release.

apt-get dist-upgrade is virtually the same as apt full-upgrade, but
uses the newer apt command rather than the old apt-get.

Colin L.



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