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house9
Asked: 2014-04-08 14:50:27 +0800 CST

How can I force unattended-upgrades to run on demand?

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This is probably an easy thing to do but I found no answers while googling for it.

I have unattended-upgrades installed and running successfully for the past few months. It will run again tonight - but I want to run it right now.

Is there a simple command to do so?

I know it is a cron job, ideally it would execute in the same context as it always does

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, if that helps.

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  1. Best Answer

    You can execute unattended-upgrade with -d option to run it any time you want :)

    Open terminal and execute this command:

    sudo unattended-upgrade -d

    It will start checking for available updates and if found it will upgrade your system.

    In addition to this I also want you to go to this site:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/18.04/serverguide/automatic-updates.html

    May 24, 2018: Changing the URL for18.04 as 12.04 is expired.

    Reply if you need any clarification.

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