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How do I cause update manager to check frequently

Asked by Jon Charge

How do I cause update manager to check more frequently than every day, say if I want it to check every hour?

Thanks for your time,

Jon

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

You may add a cron job via GUI with gnome-schedule [universe]
http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net/
or edit /etc/crontab
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto

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Jon Charge (seropith) said : 		#2

I'm not sure what the command would be.

Thank you for your time

Jon

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Jon Charge (seropith) said : 		#3

What command would cause update manager to recheck.

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Konstantin Konev (skfd) said : 		#4

This command will check if there's packages updates:
aptitude update

This will install them:
aptitude safe-upgrade

N.B.: aptitude is a console tool similar to update manager and it is installed out of the box.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

Example (for weekly) is here,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutoWeeklyUpdateHowTo

Actually I've made a look in /etc/cron.daily/apt and because since I get available updates anytime as long as a connection is established, I wonder if a cron job hourly is necessary at all.

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