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This is to allow the administer fine grained control. The more higher level of updates, the more risk to a system.After running an
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upgrade
Package Update using upgrade is the safest and covered in Setup Ubuntu Linux Base Server. The command to upgrade is,
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A reboot is almost never required., but you can verify that the reboot file does NOT exist,
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cat: /var/run/reboot-required: No such file or directory |
From the man pages,
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dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual packages. |
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