How to Enable Automatic Updates and Security Updates in Ubuntu

Learn how to automatically install Ubuntu updates including security and kernel updates with the unattended upgrades package. The system in the tutorial is Ubuntu 20.04 server.

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[FuzNuts]

I definitely appreciate your videos, Tony! Great work!

[SaarKoren]

Great tutorial! Do you know how these automatic updates would work on a desktop computer? That is, a computer that isn't turned on 24/7 like a server.

[jayzn]

It seem like you have to enable unattended-upgrades to start on boot, right? For systemd this should be done with "systemctl enable unattended-upgrades" afaik.
Thank you for clarifying the different options and showing how to setup uu!

[hrcfkbt]

Great video! Can someone advise me on what I need to do in Windows, to make the console these colors and themes? I looked into bashrc but I am a bit unsure. Currently using Putty.

[alecnicolaysen]

Great guide to follow for someone new to Linux! One question - what exactly is the update-notifier-common package? I'm a bit confused on its purpose after doing some Googling - is that just a package to facilitate the automatic emails (03:27)?

[rtr]

Is need to blacklist webserver or mysql databases from auto updates? What if i don't add anything on blacklist section?

[raymarshall]

Tony low key ripped, you see that bicep flex at the beginning of the video ?

[_Trakman]

can one install Plesk (or cPanel or an equivalent) on Linode/Vultr etc to handle the updates and avoid fussing about in the terminal?

[steph]

8 linux servers to care for... nice to know thanks !

[maxcontreras.]

I think I already know my answer but I still ask. Would this work on Linux Mint? that's what i need to know, thanks

[jsamusicsociety]

Congratulations, you have excellent videos!

[wnywebdevelopment]

You should only do auto updates for security. If you start doing automatic updates on your server you have no way to revert when something goes wrong. Half the updates on Ubuntu are not needed. Do you know what your updating if something goes wrong? Doubt it.

[shawngrinter]

Automatic updates on a Production Server? You’re fired!

[Lightsight]

thank you but i continue to get error message regardless of what i do to try and repair.... im at a complete loss of why ";" spending months trying to figure it out and still want to avoid a complete re-install as i have other things running i dont want reset.... # uname -sr
Linux 5.13.0-25-lowlatency
# sudo apt install unattended-upgrades
E: Syntax error Extra junk after value
# sudo apt install update-notifier-common
E: Syntax error Extra junk after value
# sudo apt autoremove
E: Syntax error Extra junk after value

# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
75: lsb_release: not found
79: lsb_release: not found
145: lsb_release: not found
149: lsb_release: not found

[dollcoin]

Hi 😊. Thank you for the video. Can you explain which updates allows this line
and what sre different between
and this
Maybe you can help me understand it.
🥰Thank