Re: finding apt dependencies

On 7/7/26 16:14, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 16:05:22 -0400
> Eben King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Generally, I dislike it when lots of things change at the same time,
>> so rather than going through my upgradable packages periodically and
>> updating the lot of them, I run a cron job that, once a day, upgrades
>> a package chosen at random from the list of upgradable packages. I
>> got to thinking it might be bad to update some parts of a package and
>> not others, so I want to upgrade those at the top of their tree of
>> dependencies.
> 
> I agree, upgrading some packages but not other related packages is a
> bad idea.
> 
> May I suggest you look at the unattended-upgrades package? It will do a
> lot of what you want once a day.

Yes, it looks to do basically what I want.  I have installed it, so now 
I have to figure out how to use it.  Thanks.