Apt

Debian/Ubuntu package manager

 

Unattended upgrades

Links

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates
• Using Unattended-Upgrades on Debian and Ubuntu
• https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

Simple command

dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

Disable unattended upgrades

In /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";

The logs

/var/log/unattended-upgrades/*.log

FAQ

Unattended-Upgrade::DevRelease "auto";

Only works on "dev releasess", which is any not .04

HOWTO

Extract files from .deb

dpkg-deb

Pin a version

• Pinning Howto

List installed packages

apt list --installed

Upgrade just one package

apt-get install --only-upgrade <packagename>

FAQ

Show version of packages before installing

apt-get -s install somepackage

or

apt install madison-lite
apt-cache madison somepackage

or

apt-show packagename

Show available/installed versions of package

apt-cache policy elasticsearch

have been kept back

On Ubuntu this can be caused by phased updates, see https://itsfoss.com/following-packages-have-been-kept-back/

Usually means you should run

apt install <kept-back-package>

or

apt upgrade packagename

otherwise

 apt dist-upgrade

Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Try

dpkg --get-selections | grep hold

What packages depend on package

apt-cache rdepends --installed libc6-dev

Clear cache

apt-get clean

Could not handshake: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.

try http instead of https

Depends: but it is not going to be installed

First try

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Which services should be restarted?

That's from needrestart

Prevent restarting all services when installing a package

NEEDRESTART_MODE=i apt install somepackage

What repository provides package

apt policy <packagename>

Error messages

Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring

Check apt-key is deprecated

Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted.

try

deb [trusted=yes] ...

in sources.list, but things might be worse than that, in case of launchpad change to

https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/

apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead

See apt-key is deprecated

The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing

apt install <whatever package it lists>

needrestart

Service restarts being deferred

Probably services like networkd-dispatcher.service. Check /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf for $nrconf{override_rc}