update or not?

Jens Müller blog at tessarakt.de
Fri May 6 10:36:10 UTC 2011


On 06.05.2011 12:27, william drescher wrote:
> what is the difference between
> sudo apt-get update
> and
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> ?

apt-get update downloads updated package lists,
apt-get upgrade updates installed packages to the latest version.

For the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade, please look at the
man page of apt-get.

 - Jens





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