Apticron- Get Email alerts for pending package updates | Linux Today

Apticron- Get Email alerts for pending package updates

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Senthilkumar
Sep 23, 2016

Apticron is a simple, yet useful script which sends daily emails about pending package updates such as security updates, properly handling packages on hold both by dselect and aptitude. In this handy tutorial, we are going to see how to get email notifications for pending package updates using Apticron in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server.

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Senthilkumar

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