diffrence between update and upgrade?

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everyone. I am new to ubuntu. I was just wondering what is the diffrence between sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 05 '15 at 07:22

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sudo apt-get update

is command to update the repository (software source).

sudo apt-get upgrade

is command to upgrade all of your installed software.

answered Nov 05 '15 at 07:22

adadion

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '15 at 07:27

This is a Read The Manual type of question ( which you should be checking always always always before doing anything or before asking questions ) .

update is used to resynchronize the package index files ( find out what's new) , while upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list (ie install what's new)
update must always be ran before upgrade
The update lists go into /var/lib/apt/lists/ folder, and are commonly in *.list files. Upgrade backages are mostly *.deb files stored in /var/cache/apt/archives/ ( but manually installed packages go there also )

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