I have an alias I like to use on Ubuntu that goes something like this:
alias update=apt update; apt upgrade -y
But there’s an improvement that I made recently I’d like to share. First run this to get the tool.
apt install debian-goodies
Then run this command checkrestart
.
checkrestart
checkrestart
checks to see if you currently need to restart any running applications in order to fully benefit from the upgrade you just did. So if a process is using libraries that were updated, for example.
So that leaves me with an updated update
command that looks like this:
alias update=apt update; apt upgrade -y; checkrestart
Add that to your shell’s configuration and now you can run update
to fully update your system and see if anything needs to be restarted.
Enjoy!
Notes
- Note that you should be using
apt
for most things instead ofapt-get
, etc.apt
replacesapt-get
,apt search
replacesapt-cache search
, etc.