distrobox-upgrade
distrobox-upgrade will enter the specified list of containers and will perform an upgrade using the container's package manager.
distrobox upgrade
--help/-h: show this message
--all/-a: perform for all distroboxes
--root/-r: launch podman/docker 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
Upgrade all distroboxes
distrobox-upgrade --all
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