apt upgrade question

[ankonaskiff17]

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

[wishmaster270]

@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