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Why use apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get dist-upgrade?

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http://askubuntu.com – I usually use apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to run my updates and upgrades instead of the GUI because it seems to run more quickly. However, I've noticed lately that I often get a message that one of my upgrades was held back. I then usually run dist-upgrade to run it through and it works fine. As far as I can tell after reading this question and its answers, dist-upgrade does all the same things and then some. So, my question is: Why use apt-get upgrade at all? Why not use apt-get dist-upgrade all the time? Why does apt-get upgrade even exist? (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 09/29/2012

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I was using UCK to customize an Ubuntu 11.10 image, and ran a dist-upgrade on it (from the console) to try to update all of the packages on it. The upgrade worked successfully for all but two packages, so I tried again and got the same error message. This is what happened:

# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

I know there may not be an answer to this but out of curiosity does anyone know what time of day* would be best to run an upgrade for Sid? Currently I sometimes do so first thing in the morning then will do so in the evening also.

apt-get dist-upgrade question 47 weeks 6 days ago

so folks, what is the proper way to make a dist-upgrade? my smxi script and also my siduction install say i have to upgrade outside of X. on my #! waldorf installation i have done this simply by open a terminal and fire up the needed command, no issues so far.

I had this problem the first time I installed Ubuntu, and with every dist-upgrade since then. I eventually fix it, but I've never known why it's fixed, and then it gets broken again.

Checking for a new Ubuntu release Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B] Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,200 kB] Fetched 1,200 kB in 6s (6,988 B/s) authenticate 'quantal.tar.gz' against 'quantal.tar.gz.gpg' extracting 'quantal.tar.gz' [sudo] password for ryder:

Reading c

I have heard nothing but bad things about using dist-upgrade in Ubuntu to update to a new release-- lots of bugs, and so on. Has anyone had more success recently (e.g. Lucid to Maverick)

system-config-printer 2 weeks 5 days ago

Looks like a tsunami of package updates has hit sid.These are  the sort of problems you may run into tracking sid.Have you ran an dist-upgrade on sid recently?You should do that regurarly on sid as bugs get detected and corrected. Often just waiting a couple hours/days, running update and dist-upgrade again will solve things.

Following a periodic, in my case weekly, run of: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade is there much benefit from rebooting?

This morning, I cloned a completely updated and patched Ubuntu 10.04 x64 server for the purpose of updating to 12.04.

The 12.04 update seemed to go fine, but after the reboot, the first

Code: # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade failed with this output:

Code: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists...