Ubuntu server holding back on me

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:29:12PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> As I understand it, dist-upgrade takes me to the latest release.

Other people have already explained that this is not in fact the case.

To explain the naming a bit more: "dist-upgrade" is called that because
it was a thing that you would particularly need to use when upgrading
between releases of the distribution, even though all it ever
technically meant was "upgrade, but it's OK to install new packages or
to remove currently-installed packages".  Over the years it became clear
that this was misleading naming, which is why the new apt(8) tool
prefers the clearer "full-upgrade" spelling.

In fact, apt(8) makes one further change here when compared to
apt-get(8): "apt upgrade" will install new packages when required, but
won't remove currently-installed packages, while "apt full-upgrade" will
do both.  So simply writing "apt upgrade" would do the job in this case
too.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]