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

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 06:06:46PM +0100, highskywhy@yahoo.de wrote:
>>
>>
>> Good afternoon
>> Fr Nov 08 17:29:14 2013
>> Thank You for email and help.
>>
>>
>> > > Question:
>> > > How can I start update 13.04 to 13.10
>> > > by terminal?
>> >
>> > Short answer is:
>> >
>> > # sudo do-release-upgrade
>> *
>> Thank You for help.
>> *
>> I was told
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get upgrade is wrong.
>>
>> Right:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>
> You would run upgrade before running dist-upgrade, but as I think the other
> answer was from Jeff, who works for Canonical, listen to him.

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.

dist-upgrade wiill update installed packages AND pull down and install
any new dependencies.

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.

> Note that when you put a quote from someone, it's good to attribute the
> quote.
>
> The way I have done it is
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> When that's complete, it might need a reboot if there's a new kernel, then
>
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> However, I haven't closely followed Ubuntu/Debian for years, so if that
> earlier quote is from Jeff, do what he says.

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).

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.