purge-old-kernels deprecated

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 3:18 PM Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 20:03, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ok, I bite... How is someone _not_ present at the chair where the
>> mouse, keyboard and display are located? How is the person able to use
>> the GUI when _not_ sitting in the chair?
>
> I think you might be overthinking things... one friend, Richard, has a Dell Tower PC running Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I've tried to set up his system for ease of use.

Ok.

> When it comes to updating the software on his computer, he gets me to visit him to do the updates in person.

This does not scale. It is also error prone. What if you don't visit
when there's an important uptake to install?

Typically you setup a cron job or systemd timer to fully update the
system everyday. Something like
https://github.com/noloader/auto-update .

Jeff