When updating, is using "sudo apt-get update" the same as using the GUI update on desktop?

Question

Is using sudo apt-get update the same as using the GUI update on the desktop?

Answer 1

If you do the command line updates, there are a couple of extra steps:

sudo apt-get update updates the libraries such that your computer can tell what packages are outdates

sudo apt-get upgrade upgrades most packages

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade upgrades packages which require greater system modification.

A combination of ... update followed by ... dist-upgrade and then sudo reboot is the same as the gui

There is a very good link to the apt-get upgrade commands here