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

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 08:24 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sept 2025 at 08:10, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com>
> 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.

do-release upgrade has entered the chat. And wait - apt-get dist-
upgrade uses apt? What?

See? See? You see?!? I rest my case.

:-)

Regards, K.

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