apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 01:23 PM, mofaph wrote:
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>      We assume you use Ubuntu-10.04, and when October was comming,
> Ubuntu realease Ubuntu-10.10, and also you want to use latest version,
> you can use apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> Maybe I am wrong, but do think that's it.

You are and yet no in some cases. apt-get dist-upgrade might work. The 
recommended command on Ubuntu is do-release-upgrade which has code in it 
to work around circular dependencies and other cruft that drive apt crazy.