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Update doesn't update your system or the software installed on it. It updates the packages index files (downloads them from the repositories and caches them on your system). The upgrade command is what upgrades software installed on your system, from the information available in the packages index files.

For questions like these, just read the manpages. They were written for a reason you know Here is an excerpt from "man apt-get", which answers your questions fully I think.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Should be used in conjunction. - basically what update manager does. Although update manager does filter packages for a more stable - less lightly to "damage" your install.

xenopeek wrote:Update doesn't update your system or the software installed on it. It updates the packages index files (downloads them from the repositories and caches them on your system). The upgrade command is what upgrades software installed on your system, from the information available in the packages index files.

For questions like these, just read the manpages. They were written for a reason you know Here is an excerpt from "man apt-get", which answers your questions fully I think.

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       update
           update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their
           sources. The indexes of available packages are fetched from the
           location(s) specified in /etc/apt/sources.list. For example, when
           using a Debian archive, this command retrieves and scans the
           Packages.gz files, so that information about new and updated
           packages is available. An update should always be performed before
           an upgrade or dist-upgrade. Please be aware that the overall
           progress meter will be incorrect as the size of the package files
           cannot be known in advance.

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       upgrade
           upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
           currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
           /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new
           versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
           circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages
           not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
           currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
           changing the install status of another package will be left at
           their current version. An update must be performed first so that
           apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.

Well I usually do use the man command but I didn't even think to look for upgrade. Thanks.
Someone answered me on the XChat IRC but 2 minutes after I posted this. Haha