Keeping Debian and Ubuntu Machines up to date, Automatically

Debian and Ubuntu are excellent operating systems with (very) long term support and product updates - making them popular both at work and in my homelab. As someone famous probably said: If you have to do something more than once - script it. To that end I am an avid user of Debian and Ubuntu’s automatic update feature. To get going first install unattended-upgrades: sudo apt install unattended-upgrades Then reconfigure it for installing unattended upgrades:...

July 17, 2020 · 4 min · 678 words · leonroy