How to Install and Uninstall unattended-upgrades Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "unattended-upgrades" package

Please follow the instructions below to install unattended-upgrades on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                unattended-upgrades
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "unattended-upgrades" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall unattended-upgrades on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                unattended-upgrades
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the unattended-upgrades package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 1.11.2
Installed-Size: 299
Maintainer: Michael Vogt
Architecture: all
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, debconf, python3, python3-apt, python3-dbus, python3-distro-info, ucf, lsb-release, lsb-base, xz-utils
Recommends: systemd-sysv | cron | cron-daemon | anacron
Suggests: bsd-mailx, default-mta | mail-transport-agent, needrestart, powermgmt-base, python3-gi
Description: automatic installation of security upgrades
Description-md5: 13ffb6fcb282e3e2203472fa9b1a59f7
Tag: admin::package-management, implemented-in::python, role::program,
suite::debian, works-with::software:package
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/u/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades_1.11.2_all.deb
Size: 79000
MD5sum: 92c8d8cecece9312e23a51ad37f6b738
SHA256: 926edbaaf5c745b413ef5da5ba28c9352b01770befcecc556ecf795cbd6cc8f6