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Should do it, I like to include a dist-upgrade at the end to do additional tidying if dependencies have changed dramatically.

ufo 6y ago
Is there a difference between doing "apt upgrade" followed by "apt dist-upgrade" vs only doing "apt dist-upgrade"?
- 6c696e7578 6y ago
  The man page is many times better than me at explaining it: upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available. dist-upgrade dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual packages.
- geofft 6y ago
  There should not be. The distinction is that "dist-upgrade" is willing to remove packages and "upgrade" is not, on the grounds that outdated packages are common for major version upgrades but not otherwise. So I could imagine a situation where there's a new conflict, and "upgrade" resolves it by finding a different alternative instead of installing something that would conflict, and if you run "dist-upgrade" after "upgrade" it finds that the conflict was already resolved, but that seems rare/unlikely. Personally I just use "dist-upgrade" always and pay attention to the command line - it tells you pretty clearly if it's going to remove something.
- BGZq7 6y ago
  dist-upgrade is more likely to break things because it can uninstall packages. So it's sometimes useful to run a plain upgrade first just so there will be fewer packages in the dist-upgrade. This lets you review the dist-upgrade output closer and perhaps decide to cancel it if you need to make some changes before it's safe to run. If you are going to ignore the output or just run with -y, there's no reason to split them.

ufo 6y ago

Is there a difference between doing "apt upgrade" followed by "apt dist-upgrade" vs only doing "apt dist-upgrade"?

6c696e7578 6y ago
The man page is many times better than me at explaining it: upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available. dist-upgrade dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual packages.
geofft 6y ago
There should not be. The distinction is that "dist-upgrade" is willing to remove packages and "upgrade" is not, on the grounds that outdated packages are common for major version upgrades but not otherwise. So I could imagine a situation where there's a new conflict, and "upgrade" resolves it by finding a different alternative instead of installing something that would conflict, and if you run "dist-upgrade" after "upgrade" it finds that the conflict was already resolved, but that seems rare/unlikely. Personally I just use "dist-upgrade" always and pay attention to the command line - it tells you pretty clearly if it's going to remove something.
BGZq7 6y ago
dist-upgrade is more likely to break things because it can uninstall packages. So it's sometimes useful to run a plain upgrade first just so there will be fewer packages in the dist-upgrade. This lets you review the dist-upgrade output closer and perhaps decide to cancel it if you need to make some changes before it's safe to run. If you are going to ignore the output or just run with -y, there's no reason to split them.