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A package for automatically downloading and applying package upgrades, particularly security patches.

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How can I safely rollback specific upgrades?

I am currently dealing with gpu crashes which I believe have been caused by a bunch of packages that were upgraded this morning on my machine. Here's the history.log entries for this morning. I am new ...
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linux-generic version does not match with uname -r

I have a question with linux-generic. I installed linux-generic, but it did not match with kernel which was installed on my pc. When I checked linux-generic version using dpkg -l, it showed 5.15.0.92....
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unattended-upgrades does not fetch updates unless running apt-get update beforhand

Trying to achieve "automatic updates" on a private debian repository using unattended-upgrades Tried checking 1755716 suggested solution with no success The issue is new versions are not ...
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Unattended-upgrades: figuring out a origins pattern

While setting up a Ubuntu server, I installed ZeroTier, and configured unattended-upgrades as always. ZeroTier is a problem child when it comes to unattended-upgrades, because all of the origin data ...
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unattended-upgrade on specific day?

I have a few clustered servers which I want to upgrade with unattended upgrades - but on different days of the week. Since I can loose multiple nodes in the cluster I want to ensure that one runs ...
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How to add a package to unattended-upgrades? [duplicate]

How to add a package to unattended-upgrades to be automatically updated ? For exemple, add the application named XXX to unattended-upgrades in order to be updated in background.
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Ubuntu server random reboots

Yesterday I faced a sudden reboot issue in one of my Ubuntu servers. The server rebooted suddenly, and it was up only after 9 minutes. The configuration and log files of the server are shown below. ...
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What mechanism does Ubuntu have to silently install software

I am migrating from Gentoo to Ubuntu and today, I learned the hard way that Ubuntu has mechanisms, such as unattended-upgrades, that can install software that I don't want on my system (in my case, it ...
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Mozillateam-Firefox Silently Replaced by Snap-Firefox in Spite of Lower Priority

(this is a rewrite of the original question as suggested in the comments) I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 and am using firefox from the mozillateam ppa. My setup has ppa-firefox at priority 1001 (as ...
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How can I allow Google Chrome to update itself on Ubuntu? [duplicate]

From Windows, I am used to Google Chrome automatically updating itself. However, this seems not to work on Ubuntu. Every morning I am greeted with a "Can't update Chrome" error in the ...
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apt upgrade shows a warning about Intel microcode updates. Is there anything I need to do?

When I run sudo apt upgrade in Kubuntu 23.10 I get this output: user1@user1-Desktop1:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ...
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What to do about this message that appears after sudo apt upgrade? [duplicate]

This message started appearing a few days ago when I do a sudo apt upgrade. I'm on 23.10
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Unattended upgrades on ubuntu server - how to avoid restarting services

I want to keep a server up to date, but also not force a restart of things like docker or all of systemd, which would affect running containers of a running system. What software would be good to put ...
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Is running `apt upgrade` redundant (for security) with the default unattended-upgrades config?

I'd just like to confirm if I correctly understand the implications of the relationship between the -security and -updates archives (as discussed in Are security.ubuntu.com updates eventually merged ...
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Services not starting after upgrade 18.04 -> 20.04

need some help. After upgrading the following services wont start again: UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● networkd-dispatcher.service loaded ...
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unattended-upgrades not doing anything with ESM, even though security updates are available [closed]

Ubuntu 18.04 with a Pro token: $ sudo pro security-status 763 packages installed: 680 packages from Ubuntu Main/Restricted repository 57 packages from Ubuntu Universe/Multiverse repository ...
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Disable unattended upgradeds

I attempted to disable ubuntu unattended upgrades by completely uninstalling the package unattended-upgrades. However, today I boot into a system that broke itself again by installing a new version of ...
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Starting custom process after auto update completes - Apt-Get pauses custom install script [duplicate]

A little background: I am trying to set up an automated install process in AWS that configures my servers with little intervention. I have it generally working in Ubuntu 18.04. However, in 22.04 (ARM) ...
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How to make apt auto-upgrade packages even when a depends package is removed/renamed?

Normal unattended-upgrades keeps back packages when a Depends package is removed/renamed. This is usually reasonable, but I would like to override this behavior, as it can lead to breakage which can ...
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What is "o=. main" in the output of the apt-cache policy command?

In the output of apt-cache policy command I see the following lines: 500 https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/apt/do-agent main/main amd64 Packages release o=. main,a=main,n=main,l=. main,c=...
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Unattended-upgrades working correctly?

First off - I'm new to both ubuntu and the forum so please go easy on me this time! I know questions about unattended-upgrades are often asked, and this one here looks possibly identical to my ...
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How can I get unattended-upgrades to work reliably on my laptops?

For months, I’ve been having issues with unattended-upgrades not running every day, or thereabouts, with logs often empty for a week or so, or with it not working at all. I’ve amended the relevant ...
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Unattended-Upgrade frequently reboots without logging anything

On 22.04.1 LTS, unattended-upgrades service reboots the server frequently, sometimes within a 15-minute interval!. Everything is default, ie, I have not edited 50unattended-upgrades or made any other ...
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unattended-upgrades.service using an outdated library in Ubuntu 22.04

Whenever I execute an apt-get upgrade, I am confronted with a popup telling me that two of my daemons are using outdated libraries, and I am asked whether or not I wish to restart those services. One ...
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How to do apt-get dist-upgrade with noninteractive?

I am on Ubuntu 20.04 and using this command: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD=1 apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold -y --allow-downgrades --...
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How to check if unattended upgradeis currently running

I was wondering if there was a way to check if unattended upgrade is currently doing its thing (from a bash script) I want to use a cron interval to run a script that will periodically check to see if ...
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Broken release upgrade 20.04 to 22.04 has not resolveable unintended upgrades

some days ago I did do-release-upgrade on a rock pi running a little nextcloud server for me. I started the upgrade while I was logged in at the hardware itself, not over network. While the upgrade ...
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How to configure lots of packages afterwards

During unattended-upgrades (--verbose) I get this for each upgraded package: debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed How to deal with this? I installed apt-utils ...
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Unattended-upgrades hung on reboot

I have a workstation that was recently (yesterday?) upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04.5. Today it was lagging, and was rebooted. But before it completed the reboot, it started running unattended-upgrades (I ...
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NVidia driver spontaneously uninstalls

Running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop in a (mostly) unattended setup. The machine has a beefy NVidia video card. I had installed the drivers using sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall and everything worked ...
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what is happens to my data after upgrade 20.04.1 [closed]

I was useing ubuntu 20.04 , update was showing up to 20.04.1 but What will happens to all data,file,program,desktop themes after upgrade 20.04.1
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Loss of configurations after unattended upgrade

I'm in Ubuntu MATE 22.04. Today after logging in, I noticed that various subsystems were messed up. So far I noticed: no tapping on the touchpad (no simple, double, or triple tap) Ctrl+Alt+T won't ...
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Upgrade is not working due to dpkg being used by another process [duplicate]

I am unable to install anything on my Ubuntu 20.04. The reason looks like dpkg: error: dpkg frontend lock is locked by another process. This is used by following root process /usr/bin/python3 /usr/...
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How to enable Anydesk unattended access on headless Ubuntu machine?

My company is subscribed to the Anydesk performance license, we hoped that there would be an option to create a custom client with unattended access available - however, there is not. Now we are ...
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unattended-upgrades NVIDIA

I use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in my work. For regular updates of the inbuilt "unattended-uprades" package. When installing Ubuntu, I selected the option to download additional drivers. When I check ...
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apt-daily.service timer-activated. Still need to "enable" apt-update in 20auto-upgrades?

Question summary: Why do I have to configure 20auto-upgrades to do an update of the package lists, although I am already running apt-daily.service systemd-timer-based? If I don't, then unattended-...
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unattended-upgrades ignores Google Chrome upgrade [duplicate]

I had posted this question earlier at serverfault.com, but no satisfactory response yet. Please forgive for posting here too. My issue in short: unattended-upgrades ignores Google Chrome upgrade. A ...
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Ubuntu auto updater crashed

I was just running Ubuntu, and then I get a notification that auto-update crashed. (I don't like auto-update because I don't like things running without me knowing about it). Will my system be OK? (I ...
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Trying to uncomment unattended-upgrades lines with script, need help

I've recently started working as an IT person in a all Linux company, and noticed some of the tasks we do can be 'easily' automated. Today's task to automate is installing software and configuring /...
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Ubuntu 20.04 unattended upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

Believe me, I did google but didn't find the positive answer. My question ist: Can unattended-upgrades perform the same as apt-get dist-upgrade if configured correctly? If yes, what should be the ...
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reboot automatically when kernel is upgraded

I'm using unattended upgrades and I want to reboot automatically when kernel is upgraded. Is that possible?
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Why is il3-fw2.canonical.com Pinging a server? / Security Concern

Presently, we have a number of Ubuntu 20.04 servers set up with unattended-updates, restricted just to security updates. I'm aware this generates a log, and checking said log does show that about ...
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configure unattended-upgrades with override.conf

Can I configure reboot for unattended-upgrades with override.conf? Instead of /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades I put Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true"; in /etc/systemd/...
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What will make unattended-upgrades run reliably on a laptop?

I have been struggling with this in various forms, year after year. See here and here. Either I am configuring something wrong (unlikely), or I am using my computer in a bizarre way (I don't see it). ...
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Using Packer to deploy Ubuntu 20.04 to Proxmox

Problem TLDR: I've got this doing most of the AutoInstall (I think?) but it keeps bringing up the GUI install after it goes through the AutoInstall. Looking for any input into why it keeps bringing up ...
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Intel NUC unattended-upgrades battery power error

I have an Intel NUC running Ubuntu 21.10 server. When testing my unattended-upgrades setup (via sudo unattended-upgrades --dry-run --debug) I am receiving the following error: System is on battery ...
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Unable to upgrade 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS

I tried probably all suggestions brought forward. Just want to upgrade. Why can't they give us a extended chance to upgrade with the Software Updater. Can one upgrade by downloading 18.04 LTS and if ...
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distribution upgrade stuck unattended-upgrades

My distribution upgrade from ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 stuck at unattended-upgrades for about 20 minutes. Is it normal? Do you have any suggestion, what should I do now? Do you have any suggestions? I ...
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Can unattended upgrade shutdown my Ubuntu Server?

My server unexpectedly powered down today. From syslog, it seems like it might have been the unattended upgrade service: Nov 22 15:23:25 lynx systemd[1]: unattended-upgrades.service: Succeeded. Nov 22 ...
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Unattended Upgrade End Script

I have the need of notifying my fleet management system every time unattended-upgrades run, and sending some information on the packages updated. Is there any way to detect the end of unattended ...
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