On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 11:07 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Simple: > > sudo sh -c "apt-get update && apt-get --download-only -y dist-upgrade ; poweroff" > > and do the upgrade the next day, under human supervision. +1 Perhaps then directly sudo sh -c "apt-get update ; apt-get --download-only -y dist-upgrade ; poweroff"