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

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 19 Sept 2025 at 09:08, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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?

Typo on my part (which was probably obvious to anyone reading it). I
should have typed:
apt-get dist-upgrade is virtually the same as apt full-upgrade, which
uses the newer apt command rather than the old apt-get.

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

What case?

Colin L.