How do you turn off the annoying subscription nags?
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Pay for support or google some hacks.
If you don't pay for support,. you don't have access the subscription repos that are configured by default. Then you need to go into Updates - Repositories and turn off the subscription repos and add the non-subscription repo instead. You can then manually update there. https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#sysadmin_no_subscription_repo
(Anything you wonder about in Proxmox, just click the Help button top right, it takes you to the relevant section in the manual at all times).
As for auto upgrading, not sure I would ever want that. I don't know if Proxmox has anything above regular Linux/Debian methods you can easily configure.
If you don't pay for support,. you don't have access the subscription repos that are configured by default. Then you need to go into Updates - Repositories and turn off the subscription repos and add the non-subscription repo instead. You can then manually update there. https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#sysadmin_no_subscription_repo
(Anything you wonder about in Proxmox, just click the Help button top right, it takes you to the relevant section in the manual at all times).
As for auto upgrading, not sure I would ever want that. I don't know if Proxmox has anything above regular Linux/Debian methods you can easily configure.
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If autoupdates are really desired, you can look into unattended-upgrades. As stated, 100% do not recommend.
<moderated> Why my message was moderated? What a censorship for making just a useful tips...
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Yikes. "Useful" lies in the eye of beholder: The developers needs to pay their bills, so for them such a tip is surely NOT useful. And can you really blame them that they don't want to encourage this in their own forum?
Personally I'm using ProxmoxVE in my homelab. If the nag screen is the price to pay for continuing to use the software without paying for it (plus being a free beta tester since the updates hit the no-subscription repos earlier), that's a fair price in my book.
And it's still open source so anybody who really wants to do this, can still do, the Internet has more than enough "useful tips" how to do this. So "Censorship" is a little bit of a stretch IMHO.
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First as explained by @RealPjotr you need to switch to the no-subscription repository:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/newb-help-needed.159297/post-730970
Basically you will then get updates earlier than the subscripbers so you "pay" by being a free beta tester.
For the same reason you should think carefully whether you actually want automatic updates: While this mostly works even with the no-subscription repo you have a somehow higher chance to get hit by an bug. On the other hand it's a good idea to have automatic security updates so this is really not easy to decide:
For a homelab it might be ok to have a non-working server while a company can't tolerart a large distruption of their services. On the other hand: If your family relies on the server for Internet access and a media library you don't want a large outage too
For manual updates the commands are in the wiki:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/System_Software_Updates
For automatic updates see https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
This will only work for the security updates from Debian and you will still have to think carefully about possible problems.
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