sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Does anyone have an idea why the upgrades won’t install?
As far as I can gather - they do things in an identical way. Full-upgrade was introduced since it was felt dist-upgrade was a bit misleading and gives the idea that you do a distribution upgrade.
I always update when the Program Updater notification appears.
But if I need to use the commands I don’t use dist-upgrade, I always use sudo apt upgrade.
upgrade will hold back upgrades that require other packages be removed due to dependency changes. It will only upgrade installed packages and install new packages.
dist-upgrade/full-upgrade will remove packages that were automatically installed (installed as dependencies of manually selected packages) as needed to satisfy package upgrade dependency conflicts.
First is rather conservative and cautious, second is smarter and broader.
I am confronting a similar issue of being unable to update/ upgrade a package over the last couple days.
When I run “sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade” , the output says:
1 package can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list --upgradable’ to see it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Running the latter returns:
usb-creator-kde/disco-updates 0.3.5ubuntu19.04.2 amd64 [upgradable from: 0.3.5ubuntu19.04.1]
N: There are 2 additional versions. Please use the ‘-a’ switch to see them.
But neither sudo apt update, nor sudo apt upgrade, nor sudo apt dist-upgrade nor sudo apt full-upgrade do actually update the packages. The output is always same ol’ :
1 package can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list --upgradable’ to see it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Good question: Why do I have a package usb-creator-KDE ??? I don’t have the slightest idea. Probably happened when I was trying to install a USB creator app. The package is there, the app nowhere to find.
Funny that the package even installed.
I just purged it and everything is fine.
Thanks for clarifying. A good day that starts learning something.