I recently decided to update my stable Raspbian Wheezy image because of the most recent incremental release. I had originally started with the October 2012 image and had updated/upgraded once before when the December 2012 release came out. Couldn't remember all of the different commands so I looked them up once again. It took a few tries because not all of the commands wanted to work nice together. The "sudo apt-get update" always finished properly, but when I followed that with "sudo apt-get upgrade", it finished with several errors and wouldn't reboot. Tried it more than once with similar results. What did work was to follow the update with the "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". I did follow one suggestion to string the two commands together like this:
sudo apt-get update&&sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I'm not sure if this is the normal expectation or if "apt-get" was just having a bad hair day.
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tonyhughes
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Re: Update, Upgrade, Dist-Upgrade?
Leave some spaces around the ampersands.
e.g.
Apt-get is not very graceful around network errors/problems, so make sure your network config is up to scratch.
e.g.
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgradeRe: Update, Upgrade, Dist-Upgrade?
Worked fine without the extra spaces and, no, the errors were not due to network issues.tonyhughes wrote:Leave some spaces around the ampersands.
e.g.Apt-get is not very graceful around network errors/problems, so make sure your network config is up to scratch.Code: Select all
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade