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One of the main features of silverblue is auto updates in the background. You don't need a cronjob or a graphical tool to achieve this, it's build into the distribution.
Have a look here: https://miabbott.github.io/2018/06/13/rpm-ostree-automatic-updates.html
You just have to change one entry in /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf and reload the systemd service.
Does that work even for the OCI images that ublue uses¿? Also can we configure this further. I don't want to accidentally update my image when on a metered connection.
I only used ublue images for a little bit but on the one which offered xfce at that time it was available. I think it's part of the main image design, so I see no reason it not being available. You can easily check tho.
Looks expected:
https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/191
Ublue uses OCI images, I don’t think Silverblue does. Last time I used Ublue even rpm-ostree couldn’t do “check” but it looks like upstream has fixed that at least.
Unfortunate but understandable. uBlue delivers images in a different way as opposed to silverblue. Great project though and one I will recommend to anybody
Unfortunately I have no idea why your updates have stopped working.
As for having to run the upgrade command, have you considered using cronie to run the command on a schedule for you?
Here's a decent guide for it if you wanted to look into it as a bandaid fix.
Thanks I will look into it
More than like likely yes, although you shouldn't have to and this is not expected behavior. Same thing happened to me with Kinoite. Twice. I still got flatpak upgrades through Discover but no longer system upgrades, or the system upgrades would appear but error out. I just decided to not rebase anymore after the third reinstall and use toolbox for everything that didn't have a flatpak available.
I thiink, sudo systemctl enable NAME OF SERVICE
they have an automatic updater service, anyone knos the name?
Edit: other people already mentioned the rpm-ostree native way, which is better.
Btw, do you know how then to disable the update check / module in Discover? I find it weird to have it check always, and also to search for big GUI apps there is kinda not the purpose, although sometimes necessary