Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
You're misreading the command - dist-upgrade mean to upgrade the
current distribution (in-place, not to a newer one).

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/194651/why-use-apt-get-upgrade-instead-of-apt-get-dist-upgrade

MR