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

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 15:59:29 UTC 2025


Hey there,

Colin Law wrote:
>Little Girl 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.

Ah, thank you. I've updated my notes.

-- 
Little Girl

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