How-to: Easily Automate your Linux System Updates

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I love Linux. It is my favorite choice for an operating system.

As a software engineer, I prefer working with systems that are:

• Super customizable
• Not filled with bloatware garbage 🗑️
• Fast 🏎️
• Easy to use and learn
• Stable

And Linux is one of those, and it has many offerings (Mint, Ubuntu, etc.)

Linux also has a GUI-based Software Center, which allows users to update different programs, or all of them at once. I personally find that one slow, and I’m not usually in the mood for going through updating each program one-by-one.

Other users may prefer the Software Center, if they want to update some but not all programs on their machine. To each their own.

So, I coded up the nifty little shell script below that:

✅ Updates all of my programs

✅ Updates my OS to the latest version

✅ Cleans up older versions

All I have to do in my terminal is enter update, and it runs.

Script when it starts running:

Script when it’s finished running:

The Script 👨‍💻

Source: https://www.techieapps.com/