# How to setup automatic updates for Ubuntu running Discourse?

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**Created:** [May 28, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-setup-automatic-updates-for-ubuntu-running-discourse/63501 "2017-05-28T12:02:40Z")\
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Hey, @mhwebee, since you asked me specifically, I’ll answer, but I, using a tablet and not a real computer…

The simple, it’s not a Linux forum, way is to wait a few days and log in again. In a while you should get a message saying that there are x updates and zero of them are security updates. Just look again in a week or two. Maybe reboot first. I, not entirely clear what needs to get restarted to reread those settings.

Sorry that’s not very satisfying, but it’s usually what I do.

When I want to check what the way to see the way to see what upgrades are available, I have to read the man page or google.

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