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-Zeus-
April 30th, 2010, 07:27 PM
Every time I have upgraded Ubuntu, it always goes through a number of steps, with prompts. "Remove packages"... "unsupported packages"... "configuring grub-pc". Is there a good way to do an upgrade with no intermediary human intervention? Stuff at beginning and end is fine, but not partway through. This isn't a server, I'm just lazy and want to do it overnight.

Thanks.

phillw
April 30th, 2010, 08:00 PM
Hi,

there is an unattended upgrade (update?) option, but i cannot find any documentation on it.

Automated Updates
Use Synaptic Package Manager:
System -> Administration -> Synaptic Manager -> Settings -> Preferences -> General -> Reloading Outdated Package Information -> Automatic

Regards,

Phill.

-Zeus-
April 30th, 2010, 10:45 PM
Hi,

there is an unattended upgrade (update?) option, but i cannot find any documentation on it.

Automated Updates
Use Synaptic Package Manager:
System -> Administration -> Synaptic Manager -> Settings -> Preferences -> General -> Reloading Outdated Package Information -> Automatic

Regards,

Phill.

Hi PhilW,

I think that is just about the normal update process, I'm talking about a distro upgrade.

cariboo
April 30th, 2010, 11:11 PM
Make sure you are fully up-to-date. Remove any packages you installed via dpkg that aren't in the repositories, disable any ppa's, you will see a message that it is upgrading grub, as there is a newer kernel, but you shouldn't have to intervene unless you've got a custom grub.cfg.