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So I've got Linux Mint 13 running on my mom's computer, and she's TERRIBLE about running updates regularly. So I need to either have it auto-update (everything, including the ppa's etc.) or have a very prominant, always-on notification that won't go away until the computer has been updated.

I tried using unattended-upgrade, but I couldn't get it to work...

Any thoughts?

Well I found out that anacron wasn't running right, so I purged it and reinstalled it, then created a bash script to do apt-get update, apt-get upgrade -y, and apt-get autoclean in the cron.daily directory. I think it's working now.

By what means did you determine anacron was not working properly? Unattended updates are not working for me either. Thanks for any enlightenment.

Carl

not sure how to determine anacron isn't running correctly either but ...

i don't see what i'd call auto update occurrences in the logs:

/var/log/apt/history.x
it does show an instance of /usr/sbin/synaptic command being run --non-interactive back in Aug 2013. but that is the only time

/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log
it doesn't show any entries


i'm going to try "@A Future Pilot" suggestion that works for him to create that bash script with apt-get commands