There have been a lot of writing the last days in a
topic in "Upgrade Warnings" about
apt and how to use it on siduction dist-upgrades. Melmarker suggest that it's good to get familiar with apt, that's a good idea. There has been some other posts about this in the past and I tried to find out some and have red a little on
The Debian Administrator's Handbook. I must admit that I don't really understand but I understand that things have changed a bit.
Since the Kanotix time I have learned to use
apt-get update and then
apt-get (
install), (
dist-upgrade) or (
purge) and so on.
Is it recommender to allways use
apt instead of
apt-get in siduction now? And shall we then do
apt full-upgrade instead of
apt-get dist-upgrade?
After reading in
man apt I got this, do I understand right?
- apt upgrade is upgrading installed packages and install new ones if it's necessary but will not remove any packages.
- apt full-upgrade (the same as apt dist-upgrade) is doing the same as apt upgrade but will also remove packages if it's needed (this is the recommended command to use with siduction dist-upgrade?)
Would be nice to have some comments about this, thanks.
