linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] update 13.04 to 13.10 Xubuntu

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:26 AM, highskywhy@yahoo.de
<highskywhy@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> Good morning
> Thank You for email and help.
> Di Nov 12 09:20:14 2013

> >
> > So, if you have package foo installed, and an update to package foo
> > now adds package bar as a dependency:
> >
> > apt-get upgrade will ONLY upgrade package foo
> > apt-get dist-upgrade will upgrade package foo AND download and install
> > package bar.
> >
> > They're meant for different situations, but I never use upgrade, only
> > dist-upgrade.
> *
> So dist-upgrade is better.

Depends on your package management strategy... for most users, yes,
dist-upgrade is fine. In cases where you have tight
control/limitations on what packages are installed (e.g. enterprise
settings like datacenters and corporate desktops) you may NOT want to
pull down new packages. For your use, dist-upgrade is probably
preferable.

>
> >
> > Yeah, the original question was "How can I start update 13.04 to 13.10"
> >
> > neither apt-get upgrade nor apt-get dist-upgrade will do an upgrade
> > from one version to the next. the do-release-upgrade command is for
> > updating the entire distro from one version to the next (e.g Raring to
> > Saucy).
> *
> Sorry.
> I do not understand.
> I want to go from 13.04 to 13.10
> Do I have to do:
>
> do-release-upgrade

That's exactly what I just said. To upgrade from one relese to the
next (e.g. Raring (13.04) to Saucy (13.10) you would use
do-release-upgrade.

That command will check with the ubuntu archives to see if a new
version of the OS is available and will then prompt you to do the full
upgrade.

> >
> > Also, if you want a gui to upgrade, I believe "update-manager
> > --check-dist-upgrades" will launch update manager and prompt you to
> > upgrade from one version to the next. That said, I've never tried it
> > because I use CLI only for package management. The only time I use a
> > GUI is when accessing the software center to browse for new things to
> > try.
>
> Thank You.

You're welcome :)

>
> Regards
> Sophie