Comments on: Automatic update of packages using cron-apt http://www.debianadmin.com/automatic-update-of-packages-using-cron-apt.html Debian/Ubuntu Linux System Administration Tutorials,Howtos,Tips Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: joe http://www.debianadmin.com/automatic-update-of-packages-using-cron-apt.html/comment-page-1#comment-3442 joe Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:40:03 +0000 http://www.debianadmin.com/automatic-update-of-packages-using-cron-apt.html#comment-3442 <i>cron-apt Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By default it just updates the package list and download new packages without installing. You can instruct it to run anything that you can do with apt-get (or aptitude). </i> So, how can i get it to go beyond the default and get it to do the install too? that's far more useful to discuss here than the email options you bother explaining... cron-apt Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By default it just updates the package list and download new packages without installing. You can instruct it to run anything that you can do with apt-get (or aptitude).

So, how can i get it to go beyond the default and get it to do the install too? that’s far more useful to discuss here than the email options you bother explaining…

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