upgrade-system(8) Command for upgrading and sanitizing a Debian system

SYNOPSIS

upgrade-system

DESCRIPTION

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:

  • Synchronize the list of available Debian packages.
  • Upgrade all installed packages to their newest versions.
  • Recursively uninstall all obsolete package dependencies.
  • 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

AUTHORS

Copyright © 2004-2012 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>.

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