Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Bret Busby]

On 04/10/2017, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 October 2017 at 14:22, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My understanding, from the ensuing discussion, is that the next
>> suggested command;
>>  sudo apt full-upgrade
>> leads to a distribution upgrade.
>
> No it does not. You understand incorrectly.
>
> Do you not think it would be silly for the designers of an OS to make
> it possible to move from a supported release to a potentially
> unsupported (or short-term) one _accidentally_ by a single command?
>
> Does that seem like a sensible thing to do?
>
> I submit that no, it does not, and no Linux I know of does that.
> Rolling-release distros, yes, but then there are no stable/unstable
> versions, so it is academic.
>
> I suggest that you think about such beliefs or assumptions and
> consider whether they seem sensible or not -- as a way of verifying
> your own beliefs and prompting you to check. It's how I test my own.
>
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--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:01:46 +0100
Subject: Re: Faulty Software Updater on 16.04
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>

On 17 Aug 2017 10:49 p.m., "Ralf Mardorf" <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 05:26:09 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>The window does not provide a button "Show details", and, does not
>allow me to copy and paste the text that is displayed in the window.

Hi,

you cold open a terminal, to run the following commands

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt full-upgrade
  sudo apt autoremove


I am not sure that 16.04 has the full featured apt command so may be better
to stick to apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.

Colin


and post the commands + their output. Ensure that your MUA
doesn't wrap the lines.

This is not the procedure to fix issues, it's just a procedure to
upgrade and to tidy up, so it might report issues.

Regards,
Ralf
"

and my understanding is that
apt-get dist-upgrade
upgrades the distribution, or version, to the latest current one;
hence, 16.04 to 17.10 ; LTS to non-LTS.

In the context of all of the material in that message, it inferred,
or, implied, that
apt-get dist-upgrade = apt full-upgrade

Simple me, simple logic.


-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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