Questions about apt-get and updating/upgrading from 14.04 to 14.04.1
Colin Law
clanlaw at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 17:11:06 UTC 2014
On 19 July 2014 16:26, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.
Should it not be apt-get dist-upgrade rather than just upgrade?
Colin
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