Pretty new to managing a server via the command line. Have seen lots of tutorials about the ‘apt-get update’ command line and frequently see updates when logging in via terminal.
Is it necessary to run ‘apt-get UPGRADE’ after the update? Curious if update is sufficient or if that only gets the files, then upgrade is necessary. Also, have to reboot after that too?
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Hi Peter,
you cand find a description of these commands with
man
:In other words,
update
is just a “what is new?” question andupgrade
is the installation itself. So what you need is: