Question on apt-get update

kavitha R kavitha.r0573 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 00:02:35 UTC 2019


 Thanks Dan.

It would be great if you could answer the rest of the questions.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 7:21 AM Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:19 AM kavitha R <kavitha.r0573 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How does apt-cache create and updates the local package cache? Is it
> periodic or manual? As far as my investigation, it is manual (apt-get
> update).
>
> It can be manual; if a package like unattended-upgrades is installed,
> it can run apt-get update periodically; see
> https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
>
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