[SOLVED]Auto Update or Notification

[A Future Pilot]

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?

[A Future Pilot]

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.