Commands apt and apt-get in Debian-based Distros

In Linux systems based on Debian, the commands apt and apt-get are used to install and uninstall packages – programs, as well as to update the system.

Although packages – programs can be installed and removed almost identically with these commands:

sudo apt install program_name
sudo apt-get install program_name

or

sudo apt remove program_name
sudo apt-get remove program_name

However, when it comes to updating the system, it is good to know that to fully update the system, the following commands should be issued:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

or

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Simply issuing the command sudo apt upgrade or sudo apt-get upgrade does not always fully update the system.

It’s good to keep this in mind.