distrobox-upgrade1

Usage

Overview

distrobox-upgrade will enter the specified list of containers and will perform an upgrade using the container’s package manager.

Examples

Upgrade all distroboxes

distrobox-upgrade --all

Upgrade all running distroboxes

distrobox-upgrade --all --running

Upgrade a specific distrobox

distrobox-upgrade alpine-linux 

Upgrade a list of distroboxes

distrobox-upgrade alpine-linux ubuntu22 my-distrobox123

Automatically update all distro

You can create a systemd service to perform distrobox-upgrade automatically, this example shows how to run it daily:

~/.config/systemd/user/distrobox-upgrade.service

[Unit]
Description=distrobox-upgrade Automatic Update
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=distrobox-upgrade --all
StandardOutput=null

~/.config/systemd/user/distrobox-upgrade.timer

[Unit]
Description=distrobox-upgrade Automatic Update Trigger
[Timer]
OnBootSec=1h
OnUnitInactiveSec=1d
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Then simply do a systemctl --user daemon-reload && systemctl --user enable --now distrobox-upgrade.timer