As we have advanced it is another way of calling the previous one or vice versa.

Dist-upgrade vs full-upgrade. According to the man pages the command apt-get upgrade for older DebianUbuntu releases or apt upgrade for newer releases such as. Dist-upgradefull-upgrade will remove packages that were automatically installed installed as dependants of manually selected packages as needed to satisfy package upgrade dependency conflicts. Similar to apt-get upgrade command the apt-get dist-upgrade also upgrades the packages.

To keep my Debian server updated I install package unattended-upgrades. You dont only use that command to upgrade from one. Or from Debian Buster to the next Debian release.

A deep dive into the difference between command line apt-get and command line apt for updating and upgrading with update upgrade dist-upgrade and full-upgrade commands. Apt full-upgrade performs the same function as apt-get dist-upgrade. Neither upgrade nor dist-upgradefull-upgrade will remove automatically installed packages dependencies that are no longer needed after the upgrade.

Full-upgrade and safe-upgrade for awhile now. Clicking this or running the Software application and going to the Updates pane will display a simple graphical interface for upgrading the system. It intelligently resolves the conflict among package dependencies and tries to upgrade the most significant packages at the expense of less significant ones if required.

In any case the reason for Aptitudes name-switch I think is that dist-grade was always a bit confusing. When the upgrade is complete the system will automatically reboot into the new release. Published on Jun 2 2020.

In addition to this it also handles changing dependencies with the latest versions of the package. This command will not touch the core system and its utility. Both options will remove packages that have been installed automatically if they need to resolve conflicts in package dependency updates.