Apt upgrade

• apt upgrade
• apt upgrade -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act

• apt upgrade linux-image-generic

• apt -qq -y update > /dev/null && apt upgrade -y > /dev/null &

• apt update -y && apt upgrade -y

• apt -qqq update -y && apt -qqq upgrade -y; echo $?

Example

apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
 mariadb-server
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

apt upgrade
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

Failed to reload daemon: Refusing to reload, not enough space available on /run/systemd. Currently, 1.9M are free, but a safety buffer of 16.0M is enforced.

Related terms

• apt update && apt upgrade, apt dist-upgrade
• grub
• /etc/apt/sources.list
• apt --fix-broken install
• do-release-upgrade
• snap refresh
• npm install -g npm

See also

• APT: wajig, apt-cache, add-apt-repository PPA, apt [ install | remove |purge | show | list | changelog | update | upgrade], do-release-upgrade, apt-mark, apt full-upgrade, sources.list, APT Automatic updates, unattended-upgrade, apt-transport-https, apt-get update, /etc/apt/, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades, apt-file, apt-utils
• Ubuntu, Ubuntu releases, snap, MAAS, PPA, Canonical Livepatch, Ubuntu Advantage, netplan, multipass, Landscape, Subiquity, lsb_release, Ubuntu MATE, Wayland