[Solved] Setting "Automatic Maintenance" by script has no effect to GUI checkbox

[it-place]

Hi,

in Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon I'm using a bash script to set the "Automatic Maintenance" to ON under Update Manager > Edit > Preferences > Automation. Therefor I'm using this command: sudo systemctl enable --now mintupdate-automation-autoremove.timer

"Automatic Maintenance" is enabled as expected but this command has now effect on the checkbox in "Update Manager". The option is still showed as OFF even if I restart the system. In older versions of LM e.g. 20.3 this wasn't a problem, the checkbox was shown correctly.

Any ideas why this happened? Regards - Olli

[Cosmo.]

I wonder, why you use a script at all. Do the settings and it should be good (inclusive the marked option).

[it-place]

The script is useful because it's used to setup several Linux Mint systems the same way. The script is installing additional packages, setting up the printer, setting up several Cinnamon settings... so it's very useful for us.

[it-place]

Problem solved. In Linux Mint 21 an additional file is created by setting "Automatic Maintenance" to ON:

/var/lib/linuxmint/mintupdate-automatic-removals-enabled

So in my script I had to add a touch command to that file...