Which single command can I have for Ubuntu maintenance?

Question

I see we have apt update and apt upgrade, but then we should do apt autoremove and/or apt autoclean, etc.

Is there a single command for full Ubuntu maintenance?

Answer 1

We can have

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt clean -y && sudo apt autoclean -y

• update - updates the list of packages but do not install
• upgrade - install new versions of packages if new versions are available
• full-upgrade - performs the function of upgrade but will remove currently installed packages if this is needed to upgrade the system as a whole (fixing bad dependencies then)
• autoremove, autoclean and clean - clean old packages which are not needed any more
• option -y does not request for permission on every step