Feature request: Update Manager - "Download and Install automatically" Option for other packages

[Lars Vogel]

I would be great if the Update Manager provides the option to auto-update also "other updates". For security updates this option is available but not for normal packages. This seems unbalanced.

I personally have no way to evaluate if an update for a standard package is good or not and always install on my Desktop machines all updates. The constantly display popup is annoying for me. It sometimes reminds me of the Window update popup which also was annoying.

Also Firefox and Chrome are now auto-updating themself so this seems a big trend. I know that I can install another package or setup an cron job to do these updates but I think this option should also be available in the Update Manager to be more accessible.

I posted this as a question in launchpad and was advised to open a bug: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/206120

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Samcoles (samcoles)]

This feature would be particularly useful for me to be able to enable on my parents' system where they ignore the update popup for weeks at a time until I visit them.

[Boerny (b-stader)]

non gui option

edit file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades

uncomment row

 "${distro_id} ${distro_codename}-updates";

see (german) http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Aktualisierungen/Konfiguration?redirect=no

But an option in the update-manager would be great.

[Thomas Mashos (tgm4883)]

IMO, this would be a bad thing to enable on a parents' machine. Security updates can already automatically happen, but it would be bad if a regression happened in a package they used (firefox, libre office, etc) that caused the program to stop functioning completely. As those things aren't security related it seems that not having that enabled would be a better solution.

That being said, this should still probably be an option.