Anyone brave enough to have kicked the Microsoft shackles and embrace the wonderful world of linux – and here I’m talking about Ubuntu specifically, but this might also apply to other distros too – will have enjoyed the delight of easy and frequent system updates and a vastly simplified application installation process. 3 cheers to Linux.
As I write this, the next regular release of Ubuntu is about a month away and there seems to be a pattern around this stage of the cycle of super-frequent system updates – I guess this is all the fixes being readied for the next release, percolating down into the regular upgrade cycle. It should get quieter soon – just before the real release, but right now, there seems to be a list of 10 to 15 individual updates every day. I like the ability to review updates and to choose to delay them until after (say) some critical demo or presentation – but I just don’t have the time or attention span to review each and every update package so applying the updates becomes something of an automatic chore after each reboot of my workstation.
No more – I finally got around to figuring out how to completely automate this – and like many things with Ubuntu – it is a simple as pi (3.1415926 – give or take a metric smidgen)
Edit the upgrade configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades and uncomment the jaunty-updates line (shown in red below)
// Automatically upgrade packages from these (origin, archive) pairs
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
“Ubuntu karmic-security”;
“Ubuntu karmic-updates”;
};
(Don’t forget sudo – this is a system file)…
Enjoy
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