apt and apt-get - was Re: follow-up (and problems) about: recommendation for all-in-one printer?
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 6 22:26:15 UTC 2020
On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 09:59:04PM +0000, Bret Busby wrote:
> So, for clarity, what then, is the better syntax for the following command?
>
> sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get
> -y autoremove && sudo apt-get -y autoclean
In that, you can just replace "apt-get" with "apt" and "dist-upgrade"
with "full-upgrade". No real functional difference, just more concise
and clearer ("dist-upgrade" has long been a rather misleading name).
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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