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I have been using Ubuntu for awhile now and have usually used the software updater to update my system. I know that you can use sudo apt-get upgrade to update all of your software on your system. What exactly does the software updater do, and is it the same as the aforementioned command?

George Udosen
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    The equivalent command(s) are sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade you have to update the list of available software first. – Panther Sep 24 '17 at 21:05

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I do not know the exact mechanics of software center, but they are all front ends for package management.

From the command line the equivalnts are

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

or

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

I believe Ubuntu is slowly migrating from apt-get to apt.

For additional information see

What is the difference between apt and apt-get?

https://www.maketecheasier.com/apt-vs-apt-get-ubuntu/

and

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html

Panther
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  • Once likely less known diff is starting in 16.04 by default apt will not cache the packages (in /var/cache/apt/archives) while apt-get still does. – doug Sep 24 '17 at 22:39