Upgrade problem

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 19 May 2019 14:05:24 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 19 May 2019 07:47:26 -0400 (EDT), Robert Heller wrote:
> >sudo apt-get update
> >sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> The time has come to post the official way to do it, as done by Colin
> on Sun, 19 May 2019 08:30:14 +0100:
> >sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
> 
> apt is not just an alias for apt-get and dist-upgarde is not just
> another name for full-upgrade.

What are the differences?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Seemed to be the "right thing" for Ubuntu 14.04 (and seems to work for 18.04
and Raspbian on my 'Pis and for Debian 9 on my Beagles), but what is the
"right thing" for Ubuntu 18.04?

(I an *relatively* new to Ubuntu/Debian, having been using RedHat / CentOS
since like forever.)


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