Upgrade problem

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 11:29 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> What are the differences?
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> Seemed to be the "right thing"

Hi,

apt-get dist-upgrade should work perfectly, too. However, the official
Ubuntu tool nowadays is apt.

  https://askubuntu.com/questions/770135/apt-full-upgrade-versus-apt-get-dist-upgrade

The apt replacements for several apt-get and dpkg commands are more
user-friendly. The helper gdebi could be replaced by apt install, to
install a local package and to resolve dependencies from repositories.

It's not recommended to use apt for scripts, but actually I never
experienced an issue:

  [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ apt list -a linux-lowlatency | grep installed

  WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

  linux-lowlatency/xenial-updates,xenial-security,now 4.4.0.148.156 amd64 [installed]

Regards,
Ralf