On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 18:21:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Fungi4All composed on 2017-07-19 17:39 (UTC-0400): > > >> Brian composed: > >> One picture is worth a thousand words: > ... > > Here is a picture from my backup machine > > $ sudo apt upgrade > ... > > 27 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > > Need to get 68.5 MB of archives.> After this operation, 242 MB of > > additional disk space will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > > Abort. > > > $ sudo apt-get upgrade > ... > > 25 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > > Need to get 21.1 MB of archives. > > After this operation, 145 kB of additional disk space will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > > Abort. > > Prezactly! ;-)
The different results with apt upgrade as opposed to apt-get upgrade are due to apt installing new packages, something which apt-get will not do. Use apt-get dist-upgrade for that. The end result is the same.
