dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing
dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it
will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if
necessary. So, dist-upgrade command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains
a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a
mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual packages.
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