Questions about apt-get and updating/upgrading from 14.04 to 14.04.1

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Jul 19 15:26:16 UTC 2014


Robert Heller wrote:
> I have a question about apt-get and what is the correct process to
> upgrade a system from 14.04 to 14.04.1.
> 
> I know that normally one does 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade'
> to first update the repository listing files and then upgrade
> packages, generally for routine bug and security updates.  What I am
> not sure about is whether this is sufficient to do a point-level
> update or not.

Yes, it is sufficient. The point releases are more or less only updates 
to the iso images which include the latest updates at the time of their 
release.


Nils





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