Query about 21.10 release notification

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 07:41, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:56:51 +0100, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >Is this a case of updates vs upgrades?
>
> I always thought that an apt update only updated the package lists used by apt,
> whereas apt upgrade or apt full-upgrade *applied* the newly found fixes.
> Getting new package lists is not in any way affecting operations of the system
> as far as I know.
>

That is absolutely correct.

> To get to a new release you have to do an apt dist-upgrade or similar.
>

No, that is absolutely not correct. The old apt-get dist-upgrade
command is effectively the same as apt full-upgrade.
To update the Ubuntu version you have to use sudo do-release-upgade

Colin


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