Upgrade problem

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 16:31, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Either is fine.  apt is the later command but apt-get has been
retained so as not to blow up old scripts.
I know that Ralf suggests there is a difference between apt
full-upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade but I don't think any
differences are of great importance (if there actually are any).

Colin