What is the difference between apt-get update and upgrade?
By Gabriel Cooper •
What is the difference between apt-get update and apt-get upgrade?
Which should I run first?
Do any of them automatically run the other?
31 Answer
You should first run update, then upgrade. Neither of them automatically runs the other.
apt-get updateupdates the list of available packages and their versions, but it does not install or upgrade any packages.apt-get upgradeactually installs newer versions of the packages you have. After updating the lists, the package manager knows about available updates for the software you have installed. This is why you first want toupdate.
Additionally, you can use apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to do both steps after each other.
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