have to update on a regular basis...why?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 March 2015 at 02:27, phil <phil at philfixit.info> wrote:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade &&
>> sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean && exit
>
> No need to run upgrade, dist-upgrade will do an upgrade plus anything
> else it needs to do.

Some people like to do a two-staged install with upgrade then dist-upgrade.

I'd only recommend it if you haven't upgraded in a while.