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In Linux Mint, if I have an upgrade that is taking a long time, can I sudo shutdown -h +60 and walk away, or is there a better way? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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I don't want the system to shutdown in the middle of the upgrade, but I've already started the upgrade in the GUI.

Is there a better way, maybe involving the apt lock?

EDIT: Thank you for all the helpful suggestions. Hopefully this helps the next person. My upgrade actually finished on its own while I was posting. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone

Alternatively, you can wait until there are no processes matching a regex with pidwait <regex>.