# Setting up UnattendedUpgrades on Debian 10

# Step 1: Install dependencies

Make sure you have unattended-upgrades and apt-listchanges installed on your system:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges

Run the following commands to setup unattended-upgrades:

echo unattended-upgrades unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates boolean true | sudo debconf-set-selections

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive unattended-upgrades

Check that auto update was correctly setup:

cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

{% code title="/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades" %}

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

{% endcode %}