[SOLVED] Make unattended-upgrades behavior similar to Update Manager?

[ouroborus]

I've gotten unattended-upgrades working and it updates some packages. However, I cannot figure out how to get it to update all the packages that get auto-selected in Update Manager.

Any ideas?

[smurphos]

Which version of Mint are you using? I'm pretty sure unattended-updates is intended only for security flagged updates,.

In 18.2 and 18.3 update manager provides a CLI command mintupdate-tool

In Mint 19 it's mintupdate-cli with a revamped syntax

Both can be used in user scripts to automate updates, reflecting the levels system, including or excluding security, kernel updates etc.

If you are using Mint 19 the Update Manager GUI (Edit / Preferences) offers (disabled by default) a daily automated upgrade based on your Update manager settings.

In a nutshell if you are using 18.2 or later unattended-upgrades is not the tool for the job.

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steve@mint-toshiba ~ $ mintupdate-tool -h
usage: mintupdate-tool [-h] [-k | -nk] [-s] [-r] [-d] [-y]
                       [--install-recommends] [-l LEVELS]
                       command

positional arguments:
  command               command to run (possible commands are: list, upgrade)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -k, --kernel          ignore settings and include all kernel updates
  -nk, --no-kernel      ignore settings and exclude all kernel updates
  -s, --security        ignore settings and include all security updates
  -r, --refresh-cache   refresh the APT cache
  -d, --dry-run         simulation mode, don't upgrade anything
  -y, --yes             automatically answer yes to all questions
  --install-recommends  install recommended packages (use with caution)
  -l LEVELS, --levels LEVELS
                        ignore settings and restrict to this list of levels

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steve@HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$ mintupdate-cli -h
usage: mintupdate-cli [-h] [-k | -s | -l ONLY_LEVELS] [-i IGNORE] [-r] [-d]
                      [-y] [--install-recommends]
                      command

positional arguments:
  command               command to run (possible commands are: list, upgrade)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -k, --only-kernel     only include kernel updates
  -s, --only-security   only include security updates
  -l ONLY_LEVELS, --only-levels ONLY_LEVELS
                        only include certain levels (only use for
                        troubleshooting, list of level numbers, comma-
                        separated)
  -i IGNORE, --ignore IGNORE
                        list of updates to ignore (comma-separated). Note: You
                        can also blacklist updates by adding their name to
                        /etc/mintupdate-cli.blacklist.
  -r, --refresh-cache   refresh the APT cache
  -d, --dry-run         simulation mode, don't upgrade anything
  -y, --yes             automatically answer yes to all questions
  --install-recommends  install recommended packages (use with cautio

[ouroborus]

Excellent, this was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you

[Moem]

Marked this as [SOLVED] for you; please note that you can and should do this for your own topics. Thanks!