unattended-upgrade(8) System Manager's Manual unattended-upgrade(8)
NAME
unattended-upgrade - automatic installation of security (and other) upgrades
SYNOPSIS
unattended-upgrade [options]
DESCRIPTION
This program can download and install security upgrades automatically and unattended, tak-
ing care to only install packages from the configured APT source, and checking for dpkg
prompts about configuration file changes. All operations are logged to /var/log/unat-
tended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log and the package manager (dpkg) output is logged to
/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log
This script is the backend for the APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade option and designed
to be run periodically by APT's systemd service (apt-daily-upgrade.service) or from cron
(e.g. via /etc/cron.daily/apt).
OPTIONS
unattended-upgrade accepts the following options:
-h, --help
help output
-d, --debug
extra debug output into /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log
--apt-debug
detailed APT/LibAPT output for debugging
-v, --verbose
show verbose output
--dry-run
Just simulate installing updates, do not actually do it
--minimal-upgrade-steps
perform upgrade in minimal steps (cancel with SIGINT). This is the default now.
--no-minimal-upgrade-steps
do not perform upgrade in minimal steps
CONFIGURATION
The configuration is done via the apt configuration mechanism. The default configuration
file can be found at /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
AUTHORS
unattended-upgrade is written by Michael Vogt <mvo AT ubuntu.com>
This manual page was originally written by Michael Vogt <mvo AT ubuntu.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Canonical
There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named
COPYING.
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