November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
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Difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade
Besides the dist-upgrade command, there is another option available for upgrade:
# apt-get upgrade
This is also the standard Debian-based Linux distribution command. However, there is a big difference between these two commands.
The apt-get upgrade command will only update the already installed packages without installing any new ones or making significant changes to the packages, such as removing them. This also will not satisfy any dependency issues. If any packages require dependencies to be resolved, this command will simply leave them alone. The main benefit of this package is that it will very rarely break the system. On the downside, it also will not update or patch everything that is necessary ...