upgrade-system(8)

upgrade-system8

Command for upgrading and sanitizing a debian system

Usage

upgrade-system

Overview

upgrade-system is an APT front-end that simplifies regular upgrading of Debian systems, only requiring an administrator's intervention whenever updated packages necessitate the configuration of new features.

The command sequentially performs the following operations:

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Synchronize the list of available Debian packages.

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Upgrade all installed packages to their newest versions.

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Recursively uninstall all obsolete package dependencies.

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Clean retrieved archives off the APT cache.

Environment

Setting the FLAUSCH environment variable enables useful advanced system sanitization features. See upgrade-system.conf(5) for more details.

Files

/etc/upgrade-system.conf

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8–10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13

Authors

Copyright © 2004-2024 Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>
Copyright © 2004,2012 Christoph Schindler <[email protected]>
Copyright © 2003-2004 Martin Zdrahal <[email protected]>

License

GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

From upgrade-system 1.9.8 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.