apt-get vs. Ubuntu Update Manager

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Bob Nielsen Wrote: 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:36:28PM -0500, John DeCarlo wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:33:28 -0700, Shawn Christopher
> > <schristopheraz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This afternoon after reading all the E-mail about sound disapearing
> I
> > > decided I wanted to break my system so I was going to do an apt-get
> > > dist-upgrade however it came back as nothing needed to be upgraded.
> OK,
> > > fair enough then I ran the Ubuntu Update Manager and it came up
> with
> > > alot of updates. What is the difference? Shouldn't both of them
> read
> > > from the same sources list?
> > 
> > Shawn, 
> > 
> > Others have already given you good answers, but I wanted to summarize
> > a bit differently.
> > 
> > 1.  apt-get dist-upgrade - done basically once - when you want to
> > change the version of the distribution you are using.  Then you don't
> > use it again until it is time to upgrade again.
> > 
> > 2.  apt-get update - done every day or on a regular basis to update
> > the list of packages available
> > 
> > 3.  apt-get upgrade - this actually compares the packages on your
> > system to the new list generated by the update and sets up a list of
> > packages to download and install.
> > 
> > So because I love to break my system and be on the bleeding edge, I
> > usually do the following a couple of times a day:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get upgrade
> > 
> 
> Sometimes a new version of a package will add an additional dependency.
> 
> In that case, the listing will show "held-back" packages. Using apt-get
> dist-upgrade will usually pull in the dependency, as well as the new
> version (sometimes I have to use 'apt-get install', however).
> 
> If one is tracking hoary, it probably is a good idea to use 'apt-get
> dist-upgrade' on a regular basis until it is released.  In any case,
> the
> process will stop and let you know what it proposes to do which will
> allow you to back out, if desired.  Possibly Synaptic or
> Upgrade-manager 
> do the same things, but I've been using apt-get since before they
> became 
> available and have seen no reason to change.
> 
> 
> 
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yeah when tracking hoary you should use dist-upgrade 

Synaptic has the option smart-upgrade which uses dist-upgrade. I don't
know about upgrade-manager but I guess it's using dist-upgrade too.

I also almost always use apt-get unless I want to filter some selection
of packages.


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