DISTROBOX-UPGRADE(1)

NAME

    distrobox-upgrade

DESCRIPTION

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

SYNOPSIS

distrobox upgrade

    --help/-h:      show this message
    --all/-a:       perform for all distroboxes
    --running:      perform only on running distroboxes
    --root/-r:      launch podman/docker/lilipod with root privileges. Note that if you need root this is the preferred
                way over "sudo distrobox" (note: if using a program other than 'sudo' for root privileges is necessary,
                specify it through the DBX_SUDO_PROGRAM env variable, or 'distrobox_sudo_program' config variable)
    --verbose/-v:       show more verbosity
    --version/-V:       show version

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