Re: Re: how do i know i need a reboot after a console based "upgrade"?

Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:33 +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
if you do 'upgrade' then you shouldn't need to restart for the
changes to take effect. If you do a 'dist-upgrade' then generally you
will need to restart for the changes to take effect.

No, the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is just that upgrade
will never uninstall packages to resolve dependencies, while
dist-upgrade will. See "man apt-get" or "man aptitude"


I see.
It's just been my experience that 'upgrade' will install packages and
not require a restart. But the few packages that do require a restart,
e.g. kernel updates, will only be installed when the command
'dist-upgrade' is issued.

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