apt-get vs. Ubuntu Update Manager

[John DeCarlo]

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

HTH.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own