Originally Posted by
rattskjelke
What is the difference between full-upgrade and dist-upgrade?
Good question. I've seen the former used with apt and the latter used with apt-get. But there's also sudo apt dist-upgrade which we talked about here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...5#post13466525. Note that the man apt page makes no reference to apt dist-upgrade!
From man apt:
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full-upgrade (apt-get(8))
full-upgrade performs the function of upgrade but will remove
currently installed packages if this is needed to upgrade the system
as a whole.
From man apt-get:
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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.
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