kpackagekit question

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Nov 4 13:47:39 UTC 2010


Neal Becker wrote:

> I want to install updates automatically on an unattended server.  If I set
> kpackagekit to automatically check daily + install updates, will this
> work? I'm wondering if kpackagekit only runs if a user is actually logged
> into the console (running kde, and hence kpackagekit).

The latter, it only runs when there's a running (kde) session.

You may want to look into something like yum-updateonboot or yum-updatesd 
(I'm sure there are other solutions as well).

-- rex



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