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How do I enable automatic updates?
Update Manager is constantly offering me updates (e.g. security fixes, updates from PPAs).
How can I tell my Ubuntu installation to automatically download and install updates whenever they become ...
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What if NO update, security or otherwise is ever installed? [duplicate]
I am in need of expert advice:
Our system admin who is new to Ubuntu in particular and *nix in general is reluctant to install any updates. His view is what if after installing updates the system ...
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How to automatically install updates before shutdown?
Windows 7 automatically installs updates before shutdown. Can I get the same effect on Xubuntu?
I want to install Xubuntu on a friend's machine and make sure that security updates are installed, but ...
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How can I stop unattended-upgrades from rebooting the machine?
I just had a look at my Amazon EC2 instance and noticed I had 20 minutes exactly of downtime. I didn't know what caused it so I logged in to SSH and tried upgrading my packages, and saw that the ...
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Is there a way to download security updates and notify admin without installing the update?
We use apt to download and install security updates on our production server, and most of the time this works well for us. However, this morning, our server downloaded an update, installed the ...
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unattended-upgrades not running, /etc/cron.daily/apt missing
I have automatic-upgrades installed and configured, but it never seems to run, because there are always security updates waiting to be installed when I check.
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Prevent automatic updates on certain WiFi networks
I have a 200 MB / month plan on my cell phone and automatic updates on my Ubuntu machine. That works just fine, unless I tether them together. A couple days ago, something, I presume automatic ...
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unattended-upgrades always gives apt-key net-update error
I am running an Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Server and I have setup unattended-upgrades to be verbose.
Now I always see an error from "apt-key net-update".
Issuing the command manually gives no message at ...
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How to revert unexpected unattended-upgrades
I've been working on a LAMP server in a virtual machine with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS that I downloaded from VirtualBoxImages.com. It had a virtual disk image of about 1.8 GB. I back it up regularly.
A few ...
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How to limit unattended-upgrades swap io usage
I have a daily spike in swap IO usage at the same that unattended-upgrades runs. Besides that time of day, swap IO is rarely used. I recently tried to uncomment these settings:
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Prevent Apache restarting automatically after upgrading packages
Following on from an earlier question: Is there a way to download security updates and notify admin without installing the update?
A large number of packages interact with Apache (especially PHP) ...
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12.04 unattended-upgrades package has lock on /var/lib/dpkg/lock (cannot sudo apt-get update due to lock) [duplicate]
Calling the sudo apt-get update fails to complete. Fails with:
Fetched 2,212 kB in 13s (162 kB/s)
E: ...
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Is it possible to do an unattended/silent lamp installation?
Is there a way to set up and pre-configure a lamp environment within a bash script without user prompting by dpkg and present data like mysql or root user password and such kinds of things?
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Unattended upgrades and packages for another arch
In /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades I've configured the Allowed-Origins to install all packages automatically. The only exception is that the i386 packages are not being installed ...
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How to upgrade ubuntu from 1204 to 1210 without confirming file replacements etc
I have been upgrading ubuntu for the last couple of hours. Is there way to make upgrade happen without any confirmation dialogues?
One of the situations is that I have changed my.cnf file and the ...
