About
Apticron sends you notifications when your system needs upgrading. It gives a detailed list of all packages that need to be upgraded.
Unattended upgrades installs critical security upgrades automatically for you and sends a report of what it did.
Install and configure unattended-upgrades and apticron
$ apt-get install update-notifier-common unattended-upgrades apticron
Modify /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "1";
- Modify
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades- Uncomment the
Unattended-Upgrade::Mailline and set it toyouremail@example.com
- Uncomment the
- Modify
/etc/apticron/apticron.conf- Set
EMAILtoyouremail@example.com
- Set