Ubuntu server holding back on me

Paul Smith paul at mad-scientist.net
Thu Sep 21 20:35:29 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 13:29 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> As I understand it, dist-upgrade takes me to the latest release.

That's definitely NOT the case.  Only something like "do-release-
upgrade" will upgrade you to a new release.

The difference between "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade" is that the former
will only upgrade packages you already have on your system.  If any
upgrade requires new packages to be installed, that upgrade won't be
performed.  "dist-upgrade" will upgrade all packages on your system
even if that requires extra packages to be installed.


Neither command will ever change the Ubuntu major release you are
running.




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