Debian Updates

[Fraser Campbell]

On November 22, 2003 04:32 pm, JoeHill wrote:

> > I just installed Debian on my computer and I am wondering what I need to
> > do to get Linux to download all updates automatically.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest how to do this.
>
> best bet is to use Webmin to set up a cron job. Webmin is usually installed
> as part of any distro, but if not, you know, apt-get install webmin.

Wild, install a large piece of software that provides network access to the 
root account ... as opposed to typing the command "crontab -e".  To each 
their own!

As I've already suggested installing cron-apt is all you need to do ... out of 
the box that will download all available updates nightly.

If you meant that you want to do it manually then it would be like this:

    apt-get update
    apt-get -dy dist-upgrade

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