#SUDO APT UPGRADE LONG INSTALL#
#SUDO APT UPGRADE LONG UPDATE#

The packages mentioned in the following line have newer versions available no the repo and once you press “Y”(for yes) and press the “Enter” button, the apt application will download and install the updated packages on your Linux machine as shown in the screenshot below. Your output might look a bit different than mine, but the important things to note here is the line that says “The following packages will be upgraded:”. The output of the command “ sudo apt upgrade” is shown in the screenshot below output1: sudo apt upgrade

#SUDO APT UPGRADE LONG UPDATE#

The apt command is responsible for installation, removal, and updating of software in our system.Ī good analogy is to think of your computer as a factory and the apt command as the manager in that factory who is responsible for the installation of new equipment, removal of equipment that is no longer needed, and update desired equipment to their latest versions, while maintaining records of the equipment names and versions which are currently present in the factory. Let us start by exploring the answer to the question “What does apt do?” I can see that the above paragraph has too many “technical terms” (which I promised not to use!) but that is just the short version of the answer to explain the command “ sudo apt upgrade“, so do not worry if you don’t understand every word in that paragraph!īy the end of this article we will get back to this short answer version and by that time I am sure you will be able to understand what every word meant in the short answer above! What is the meaning of the command “ sudo apt upgrade“? sudo apt upgrade is the command used to download any available updates and apply them to the out-dated packages installed in a Linux system. Let us see what this command does, how it does that, and the reason you need to do this every time you need to install an app on your Linux computer.įor those of you in a hurry, here is the short version of the answer! The Short Version of the Answer In this article, I have tried to explain what this command means from a beginner’s perspective avoiding unnecessary “technical terms” and I have tried to keep this article concise so that you can get through the entire article in about 10 to 20 mins max!

I guess to beginners, it just feels like a magic spell to get something installed! What would make the laptop (either native or live usb) boot slowly at home but quickly at the cafe? Presumably, the other physical computer would behave similarly.I was just happy that I was able to type something in the Terminal and that it actually worked and did what I wanted it to do! I did not pay much attention to what I actually typed in. The laptop updates very quickly at the cafe. The virtual machines update very quickly at home and at the cafe.ģ.

The physical machines (1 laptop and 1 desktop) update very slowly at home (even with a usb boot, which uses a different mirror).Ģ. Both virtual machines also boot quickly at the cafe (around 5 seconds).ġ. In the cafe I booted to live usb, which I believe is not persistent. (Perhaps this is because there's nothing to update.) I did an update test and it finished almost instantaneously. I'm at a cafe now with one of the physical machines (a laptop). (I think it used, but I forgot to write it down.)Īll the previous update tests were done at home. At least one of the mirrors used was different:. The 2 physical machines took about 12 minutes to run the update.Īs another check, I did a 'sudo apt-get update' after booting to live usb. For some reason the virtual machine doesn't hang and stall. All three Ubuntu machines (2 physical and 1 virtual) use us. and.

Sudo apt upgrade long