How to automatically apt-get?

Josef Wolf jw at raven.inka.de
Tue Sep 25 20:39:10 UTC 2007


On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:12:47PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 21:38 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > Neither the
> > DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" setting nor the '--yes' option seem
> > to help.
> 
> It is probably also helpful to read this script and look at how it does
> it: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/admin/unattended-upgrades

Since this is already available as a package and only needs to be
installed/configured properly, there's no point in duplicating this
functionality.  So I will simply make sure this package is installed
and set APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade to a sane value.

Thanks for the help, Mario!




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