dist-upgrade in ubuntu

[Istimsak Abdulbasir]

Thanks guys very helpful.

Another question, What will ubuntu moving to a rolling release do to the
QAteam?

Istimsak Abdulbasir


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:06 PM, José Antonio Rey
<joseeantonior at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> And sudo do-release-upgrade upgrades the release itself.
>
> On 04/14/2013 07:03 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
> > From the man pages for apt:-
> >
> > *sudo apt-get upgrade*
> > *
> > *
> > *upgrade *is used to install the newest versions of all packages
> > currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
> > /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions
> > available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are
> > currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed
> > retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed packages
> > that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another
> > package will be left at their current version. An update must be
> > performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are
> > available.
> >
> > *sudo apt-get dist-upgrade*
> > *
> > **dist-upgrade* in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also
> > intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of
> > packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will
> > attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less
> > important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade command may remove some
> > packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations
> > from which to retrieve desired package files. See also
> > apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general settings
> > for individual packages.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Istimsak Abdulbasir
> > <saqman2060 at gmail.com <mailto:saqman2060 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Is this right command to update a ubuntu system?
> >
> >     sudo dist-upgrade #not sure if I spelled it right
> >
> >     What is the difference from apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade?
> >
> >     Istimak Abdulbasir
> >
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