apt-get upgrade

[Stephen Partington]

what he said, Was typing it up based on http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Todd Millecam <tyggna at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Any packages that don't have a newer version in the repo that you
> currently have installed.  What it actually installs is entirely determined
> by your distribution (guessing you're running Ubuntu since it's common and
> uses aptitude), so the guys in charge of Ubuntu determine what does and
> doesn't get upgraded with that command.  apt-get upgrade will, in fact
> upgrade your kernel if there is a kernel package in your repo.  Also, some
> distros will even download firmware packages and install them (but usually
> not the bios).  Also, without running an update there's no way to know if
> there are any new packages.
> If you want an explicit list of what it will upgrade, type in:
> apt-get --just-list upgrade
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what doesn't 'apt-get upgrade' uhhhhh,.. what doesn't it upgrade?
>> 1- the kernel
>> 2- the BIOS (which doesn't really count since it isn't part of the OS)
>> 3- ?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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