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Keeping the system up to date
Updating the system and software
The first you must do is to get to a terminal or virtual terminal. Once there, type the following command:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Updating your distribution
If you are looking to upgrade your distribution, you can doing running the following command:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Cleaning old software remains
To clean the system from non necessary packages you can run this command:$ sudo apt-get autoremove
