# How to setup automatic updates for Ubuntu running Discourse?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**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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**Author:** ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-setup-automatic-updates-for-ubuntu-running-discourse/63501/7 "2017-12-05T23:04:23Z")

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Alternately, don’t use a huge number of third-party repos on your production servers… software packages are not pokemon, there is no need to catch them all.

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