Good morning
Thank You for email and help.
Di Nov 12 09:20:14 2013
> >> I was told
> >> sudo apt-get update
> >> sudo apt-get upgrade is wrong.
> >>
> >> Right:
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get update
>
> Not necessarily... "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" to the
> same things, only differently:
>
> The difference is that upgrade will ONLY update packages that are
> already installed.
>
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OK
Thank You.
> dist-upgrade wiill update installed packages AND pull down and install
> any new dependencies.
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So this is better
for a newbie?
>
> 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.
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So dist-upgrade is better.
>
> 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).
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Sorry.
I do not understand.
I want to go from 13.04 to 13.10
Do I have to do:
do-release-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.
Regards
Sophie
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