How do I skip the interactive prompts asking to restart services on apt upgrade?

David Alsh

7/20/24, 12:39 AM

When doing an apt update -y && apt upgrade -y for an automated script (that runs on startup in an interactive shell) I am prompted to restart certain services.

My script looks like

#!bin/bash

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
export NEEDRESTART_MODE=a

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -y --fix-broken install

This is a "remote dev environment" based on Ubuntu that can only be accessed via ssh and is wiped when restarted - so I run these commands on initial ssh login (in an interactive shell).

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guiverc

7/20/24, 1:08 AM

Please provide OS & release details; what do you mean by *base on Ubuntu* specifically?

pLumo

7/20/24, 10:30 AM

Does this answer your question? [apt-get upgrade auto restart services](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1367139/apt-get-upgrade-auto-restart-services)

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