upgrade-system
Command for upgrading and sanitizing a Debian system
- Provided by: upgrade-system (Version: 1.11.0)
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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 © 2004-2025 Martin-Éric Racine
<martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
Copyright © 2004,2012 Christoph Schindler <hop@30hopsmax.at>
Copyright © 2003-2004 Martin Zdrahal
<martin.zdrahal@konflux.at>
LICENSE
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later