automate apt-get update

James Bensley jwbensley at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 07:26:13 UTC 2010


Whats wrong with using a cron job?

There is probaly a good reason i am missing but i cant see it.

On 4/8/10, Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't want to put:
>
> apt-get update
>
> in:
>
> /etc/crontab
>
> But then how could I "automate" the:
>
> apt-get update
>
> ? Is there a program for it? [e.g.: update-manager under GUI?] that
> randomly runs apt-get update?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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