Apt full-upgrade the correct equivalent for apt-get dist-upgrade applies package upgrades as well if they require either the install of new packages or the removal of conflicting installed packages.

Debian dist-upgrade vs full-upgrade. We therefore recommend a two-part upgrade process. The resulting startup then performs crash recovery. A full-upgradedist-upgrade should normally only be used on major version upgrades like jessie-stretch.

1 - the default InnoDB performs a fast shutdown not performing a full purge or an insert buffer merge. Note that full-upgrade is used in preference to a simple upgrade as it also picks up any dependency changes that may have been made. Upgrades are done with package management tools root or sudo access and generally involve the following steps.

After updating the above packages I tried all methods of upgrading. It doesnt make sense to use both. First a minimal upgrade to overcome these conflicts then a full upgrade as described in Section 445 Upgrading the system.

More importantly a full-upgrade aka dist-upgrade willuninstall packages if needed to do an upgrade. Extremely fast in cases of emergency but risks corruption. In some cases doing the full upgrade as described below directly might remove large numbers of packages that you will want to keep.

Apt-get dist-upgrade vs apt-get full-upgrade Post by s3a 2009-05-24 0040 I heard that from now on apt-get full-upgrade must be used instead of apt-get dist-upgrade in order to upgrade from one version of Debian to another. To do this first run. There is some difference between these two ways that often confuse users.

With the new wrapper apt dist-upgrade is called full-upgrade which better reflects what it does. Dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade also intelligently handles. Apt upgrade will upgrade currently-installed packages and install new packages pulled in by updated dependencies.