how do i know i need a reboot after a console based "upgrade"?

Tue Apr 17 17:29:12 UTC 2007

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:33 +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> if you do 'upgrade' then you shouldn't need to restart for the 
> changes to take effect. If you do a 'dist-upgrade' then generally you 
> will need to restart for the changes to take effect. 

No, the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is just that upgrade
will never uninstall packages to resolve dependencies, while
dist-upgrade will. See "man apt-get" or "man aptitude"