Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Question: Is it a prerequisite (pre-condition) that to set up a cron job to > download updates at a fixed time every day, the OS must have the installed > package "unattended-upgrades"? >
No. apt install apticron will get you a customizable cron job that will: - update the package lists daily - optionally download but not install updated packages - send you mail about updated packages (at an address of your choice) -dsr-
