Enabling Automatic Updates on Linux (MINT, UBUNTU, ZORIN, PARROT)

Описание: A quick helpful how-to on enabling Automatic Updates on Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or any other Ubuntu Based Distros. This video also reviews how to Hold or Pause updates on Drivers so that Automatic Updates doesn't break things in the process.

Commands in this video:
install the Automatic Update Package
sudo apt install unattended-upgrades -y
Configure the Package at the Kernel (Low) level.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades

Optional:
In my experience using automatic updates works great on linux, but you may run into driver related issues. To try to circumvent any issues, pause the updates on the video card, printer drivers, or other configurations that may have been a pain to setup.

Lookup the NVIDIA version installed.
dpkg -l | grep nvidia-driver
Now let's hold that driver version so updates don't apply.
sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-driver-550

NOT SHOWN IN VIDEO:
In some scenarios where there may be associated or pre-req's needed to run applications and you want to pause everything you can use a wild card to pause the configuration.

For instance in NVIDIA..
sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-driver-*

Setting a wild card will pause all packages, and not just the driver.

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