Unattended upgrades

Support & Help Requests
1

I have an older laptop I run Ubuntu Mate 18.04 on. I only use it in the summer to play music with Bluetooth speakers on my patio, and maybe order food delivery or look something up while out there. I do like to update it two or three times in the winter.

Every time I boot I cannot update as "unattended upgrades" are running and locks "dpkg" and never seems to finish. To keep this from happening I uninstalled "unattended-upgrades". I always update, upgrade or dist-upgrade as soon as I boot up.

Will this cause me any problems?

2

This won't cause any problems, as that's the purpose of unattended-upgrades.

This happens because Ubuntu automatically downloads and installs security updates by default. You can turn this off in Software & Updates and set the options to "Display immediately" for future installations.

3

Thanks for the information. Solved