For what it is worth it, dist-upgrade is used to upgrade your distribution from 18.04.2 to 18.04.3 .... to 20.04 to ....
Update - refreshes your repository data. Upgrade - upgrades your current distribution to the latest patches/versions. When you update+upgrade from command line, the GUI is not updated until you restart it or refresh it somehow. Some GUIs have some way to check for updates. That is why it was up to date after you restarted it. Tomas On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 17:03 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/25/20 4:58 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Software updater does a few extra things, as you have noticed. You > probably > > want to find out why it's failing and fix that since it's not running > > through the sequence of steps that we would expect. > > > > in the mean time, the following commands are sufficient to update your > > system: > > $ sudo apt-get update > > $ sudo apt-get upgrade > > > > You do NOT need to run dist-upgrade all the time. There are plenty of > > arguments about this one on the various forums if someone wants to get > > nitpicky, but suffice it to say that in a desktop-oriented end-user > system > > you don't need dist-upgrade. > > > > Banish it from your mind. It's irrelevant to how your system operates. > > Okay. Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
