New debian user here. I’m using sway and have a script in my waybar config to look for upgrades and indicate if any are available. However, it typically doesn’t find anything because I first need to run a sudo apt update first.
I don’t really want to figure out someway to do a sudo through this script and was curious how gnome finds updates without me needing to enter a password.
It looks like I can use unattended upgrades to do the apt update.
https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
though I don’t want it to do upgrades until I do a sudo apt upgrade after being notified of upgrades. I created a 02periodic file in /etc/apt/apt.config.d as indicated, but I only included the lines
APT::Periodic::Enable "1";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
Will this run an apt update every day for me? Is there any issue I’m unaware of in doing this? Thanks for any help!
Maybe just allow apt update specifically via the sudoers conf so you can cron job it to run without being prompted for user input, or just run it in cron as root.