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Here is my "apt-upgrade.sh" apt-get -y update apt-get -y upgrade apt-get -y dist-upgrade apt-get -y autoremove I run that everyday.

saltvedt 11y ago
https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
- vmorgulis 11y ago
  Thank you a lot!
newman314 11y ago
You missed autoclean. I typically only run autoremove upon reboot. You can also set the update to happen automatically so that all you have to do is run upgrade.
- vmorgulis 11y ago
  Thank you for "autoclean". I'll check that. > You can also set the update to happen automatically so that all you have to do is run upgrade. I'm in "testing". Sometimes, even with "-y", I'm asked to validate some messages (often inside a vi prompt).
  - newman314 11y ago
    FYI http://askubuntu.com/questions/3167/what-is-difference-between-the-options-autoclean-autoremove-and-clean http://askubuntu.com/questions/3167/what-is-difference-betwe... It cleans out unnecessary packages. All the update does is download the latest available updates so it should not be prompting. My experience is that only upgrade/dist-upgrade will prompt. I've got a VM running ubuntu 16.04-beta and it seems to be fine.
    - vmorgulis 11y ago
      Thank you for the link. > My experience is that only upgrade/dist-upgrade will prompt.
toyg 11y ago
dist-upgrade every day, really ? That's a recipe for trouble, unless you're running Sid, which means you're already in trouble. Source: my previous life.
- vmorgulis 11y ago
  Sid is unstable, isn't it? I tried it a bit but it's very (very) unstable :-) I come from Fedora and have few months only on debian. Still a rookie.
  - toyg 11y ago
    Yeah, Sid is the rolling unstable. It's still slower and relatively more stable than most rolling distributions, but it's constantly changing here and there and everywhere. Using it as your main desktop machine is a recipe for trouble, especially when major changes start rolling in. The only certainty with Sid is that your disk will work a lot because of the firehose of updated packages streaming in at every hour...
    - vmorgulis 11y ago
      > .. It's still slower and relatively more stable than most rolling distributions ... My experience is a "non-beta" Fedora is less stable than a "testing" debian. > ...Using it as your main desktop machine is a recipe for trouble ... Yes! It's a nightmare especially with Gnome Shell. I see memory corruptions for months in Gnome windows. I wonder if it's related to Wayland stuff. It often occurs in Firefox.
JBReefer 11y ago
I'd run a distributed for the fact that all was one command alone
__david__ 11y ago
I do something similar, but use aptitude -y safe-upgrade ...which is less likely to break things. Every month or so I go into aptitude to manually sort things out that have gotten their dependencies wedged.
- vmorgulis 11y ago
  > aptitude -y safe-upgrade Interesting. My use of aptitude is limited to "search" so far. Did you see that? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230828

saltvedt 11y ago

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

vmorgulis 11y ago
Thank you a lot!

newman314 11y ago

You missed autoclean. I typically only run autoremove upon reboot. You can also set the update to happen automatically so that all you have to do is run upgrade.

vmorgulis 11y ago
Thank you for "autoclean". I'll check that. > You can also set the update to happen automatically so that all you have to do is run upgrade. I'm in "testing". Sometimes, even with "-y", I'm asked to validate some messages (often inside a vi prompt).
- newman314 11y ago
  FYI http://askubuntu.com/questions/3167/what-is-difference-between-the-options-autoclean-autoremove-and-clean http://askubuntu.com/questions/3167/what-is-difference-betwe... It cleans out unnecessary packages. All the update does is download the latest available updates so it should not be prompting. My experience is that only upgrade/dist-upgrade will prompt. I've got a VM running ubuntu 16.04-beta and it seems to be fine.
  - vmorgulis 11y ago
    Thank you for the link. > My experience is that only upgrade/dist-upgrade will prompt.

toyg 11y ago

dist-upgrade every day, really ? That's a recipe for trouble, unless you're running Sid, which means you're already in trouble. Source: my previous life.

vmorgulis 11y ago
Sid is unstable, isn't it? I tried it a bit but it's very (very) unstable :-) I come from Fedora and have few months only on debian. Still a rookie.
- toyg 11y ago
  Yeah, Sid is the rolling unstable. It's still slower and relatively more stable than most rolling distributions, but it's constantly changing here and there and everywhere. Using it as your main desktop machine is a recipe for trouble, especially when major changes start rolling in. The only certainty with Sid is that your disk will work a lot because of the firehose of updated packages streaming in at every hour...
  - vmorgulis 11y ago
    > .. It's still slower and relatively more stable than most rolling distributions ... My experience is a "non-beta" Fedora is less stable than a "testing" debian. > ...Using it as your main desktop machine is a recipe for trouble ... Yes! It's a nightmare especially with Gnome Shell. I see memory corruptions for months in Gnome windows. I wonder if it's related to Wayland stuff. It often occurs in Firefox.

JBReefer 11y ago

I'd run a distributed for the fact that all was one command alone

__david__ 11y ago

I do something similar, but use aptitude -y safe-upgrade ...which is less likely to break things. Every month or so I go into aptitude to manually sort things out that have gotten their dependencies wedged.

vmorgulis 11y ago
> aptitude -y safe-upgrade Interesting. My use of aptitude is limited to "search" so far. Did you see that? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230828