<![CDATA[apt upgrade question]]>what is the difference in dist-upgrade and full-upgrade when it comes to updating a Pi.
I can ask some obscure question about a Pi, totally unrelated to updating a Pi and I will get multiple hits on Google.
For example I recently did a Google search on how to format the date and time.
The question is irrelevant.
But every answer will start with:

  1. First update your Pi with the following commands.
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt full-upgrade
    OR
    sudo apt dist-upgrade
]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/17932/apt-upgrade-questionRSS for NodeSat, 09 May 2026 18:15:07 GMTThu, 03 Aug 2023 02:15:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to apt upgrade question on Thu, 03 Aug 2023 05:34:14 GMT]]>@ankonaskiff17 Hi,

it’s basically the same but not exactly…

  • apt full-upgrade upgrades all packages and removes old versions of the packages
  • apt dist-upgrade upgrades all packages and removes old versions but it tries to figure out which upgrade is more “worthful” if there are occur conflicts cause of the upgrades
  • apt update updates the locally saved list of available packages by downloading the current package list of all configured repositories
  • apt is the new replacement command of apt-get
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