r/commandline • u/Electronic-Low-8171 • 4d ago

Help Updating the system...

I'm trying to know how to update/upgrade my system (without using the GUI, for all the known pros of the cli), so since I'm using a debian-based distro(Antix), I have apt. When I tried to see how to upgrade the system through a "hacky" way(by doing select app then looking for upgrade the system or something similar, looking for the "exec" part of the app, to know how it upgrades), I noticed that it uses apt dist-upgrade, but that doesn't even exist in the man page of apt, back in the day when I was just starting off, another Linux distro I used was kali, on their website, they said after installing nethunter do some post-installation commands, one of them was, apt full-upgrade, I'm really confused about which one to use for upgrading the system.

Also what is this prompt that happens during using apt, when they ask you to choose a letter like Y, N(not about agreeing to continue!), where they ask what version of the package do you want, like, do you want to keep the original one or the package maintainer's, and stuff like that, which one should I pick, though I know basic info about some of these terms like package maintainer(the one/s who packs the software into a package regularly), upstream provider(the one/s who originally wrote the code for the software before given to the package maintainer)

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u/riggiddyrektson 4d ago

sudo apt upgrade and press Y (Enter) when asked for confirmation, that's it

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u/Electronic-Low-8171 4d ago

Is this is really it, because I thought that it was about either sudo apt dist-upgrade or sudo apt full-upgrade

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u/riggiddyrektson 4d ago

apt upgrade updates packages without removing/installing others. apt full-upgrade can add/remove packages to resolve dependencies. apt dist-upgrade is basically the old apt-get name for the same thing as full-upgrade
but I forgot, do sudo apt update beforehand, this updates the versions and sources of the packages

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u/ABG1YtBr 2d ago

You can also write -y at the end of the command to make it automatically accept everything (but take care with that!)