How to do unattended installs and updates?

Lensters · October 5, 2022, 6:45pm

I don’t see an option to answer yes to any prompts. Is there a different way to do unattended installs and updates?

castrojo · October 6, 2022, 10:19pm

For installations there are ansible modules available: community.general.flatpak module – Manage flatpaks — Ansible Documentation

Here’s how I do it, for updates I made a systemd timer and service:

github.com

castrojo/ublue/blob/main/files/flatpak-automatic.service

[Unit]
Description=flatpak Automatic Update
Documentation=man:flatpak(1)
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/flatpak update -y

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

github.com

castrojo/ublue/blob/main/files/flatpak-automatic.timer

[Unit]
Description=flatpak Automatic Update Trigger
Documentation=man:flatpak(1)

[Timer]
OnBootSec=5m
OnCalendar=0/6:00:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

And then I found these keys will keep gnome-software quiet, though you’ll have to depend on another tool to upgrade the rest of the system (or you might be using another tool that’s not gnome-software), but putting here for reference:

dconf write /org/gnome/software/allow-updates "false"
dconf write /org/gnome/software/download-updates "false"
dconf write /org/gnome/software/download-updates-notify "false"

Lensters · October 7, 2022, 7:49am

It seems to work, thanks much!