Reco wrote: > Felix Natter wrote: > > Can you really recommend 'apt-get dist-upgrade' over 'apt-get upgrade'? > > Both are useful, just for different use cases:
Yes. But actually both are required and used together. (I know you know this because you said "tried first" in the below.) > a) apt-get upgrade > You want to be sure that nothing will be removed on upgrade, and > nothing unneeded will be installed. Considered a safe option, should be > tried first. > > b) apt-get dist-upgrade > You want your upgrades here and now and willing to tolerate some > collateral damage (joking :). Considered "you've read everything it > wrote to you" option. Yes to the above. But I want to emphasize that it isn't either/or. It is one then the other. First keep things simple by only doing package upgrades that don't change installed packages. Then when all of that is done do a dist-upgrade where package migrations are needed. apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade > Please consider reading man 8 apt-get. It's all there. Yes. Documentation. Good stuff! Bob
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