Issue with apt-get update, Jessie repeats

Question

Newbie to the Pi so this may be a dumb question.

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3

In following the suggestions to use "sudo apt-get update" the update system seems to be stuck. I keep getting updates for Jessie which seem to repeat forever. I have tried restarts and the system seems to think the patches haven't been applied.

Is this something I can address or do I need to wait for the Jessie maintainers to fix something?

Here is an example Terminal Session, my entries are Bold:

pi@rasp-pi-01:~ $ sudo apt-get update

Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie InRelease

Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie InRelease

Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main armhf Packages

Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main armhf Packages

Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui armhf Packages

Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib armhf Packages Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/staging armhf Packages Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free armhf Packages Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi armhf Packages Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main Translation-en Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/staging Translation-en_GB Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/staging Translation-en Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui Translation-en_GB Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui Translation-en Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en_GB Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main Translation-en Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en_GB Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en

Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi Translation-en_GB

Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi Translation-en

Reading package lists... Done

pi@rasp-pi-01:~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade... Done

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. pi@rasp-pi-01:~ $

Answer 1

Instead of dist-upgrade (which would upgrade your distro e.g. wheezy to jessie) try sudo apt-get upgrade (after update)

Basic functionality for apt-get

update: fetch up packages versions on repositories you have

upgrade: compare updated versions with current installed ones and upgrade'en

dist-upgrade: compare distro version and upgrade it

Answer 2

To explain what sudo apt-get update is doing please read: What does “sudo apt-get update” do?

To update your system you should use sudo apt-get dist-upgrade after doing an update of repository.

If it stuck please edit your post and paste logs from update command.

@edit:

After edit I see everything is OK. Your repository has been updated to actual without errors. Next you tried upgrade your dist and apt-get tells you everything is up to date.