Automatic updates (unattended-upgrades)

Automatically apply security patches without manual intervention.

The tutorial "Automatic updates (unattended-upgrades)" helps you achieve this goal:

Automatically apply security patches without manual intervention.

1 profiles 8 steps 3 commands ~10 min

Install the package: apt install -y unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges
Configure: dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades
Answer "Yes" to enable automatic updates.
Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades if necessary:
Uncomment: Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";
Uncomment: Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false"; (do not restart automatically)
Check status: systemctl status unattended-upgrades
Dry test: unattended-upgrade --dry-run --debug