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+#gitea update tool
+Tool from `https://github.com/CMiksche/gitea-auto-update`
+or get local from `https://git.bprieshof.nl/Tools/gitea-auto-update`
+
+requires  python 3.7+   
+
+# Install tool
+## ubuntu 18.04
+```
+add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
+apt install python3.7 python3-pip
+
+python3.8 -m pip install gitea-auto-update
+```
+##debian 10,ubuntu 20.04
+```
+apt install python3-pip -y
+pip3 install gitea-auto-update
+```
+
+# Configuring
+### all os's 
+Add the following to `/etc/gitea/auto-update.ini`
+```
+[Gitea]
+site=http://localhost:3000/api/v1/version
+apiUrl=https://api.github.com/repos/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest
+system=linux-amd64
+file=/usr/local/bin/gitea
+tmpDir=/tmp/
+buildFromSource=
+sourceDir=
+logFile=/var/log/gitupdate.log
+```
+
+
+
+## Cron job
+### ubuntu 18.04
+Add the following to `/etc/crontab`
+```
+0 5     * * 7   root   /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/local/bin/gitea-auto-update --settings=/etc/gitea/auto-update.ini
+```
+### debian 10,ubuntu 20.04
+Add the following to `/etc/crontab`
+```
+0 5     * * 7   root    /usr/local/bin/gitea-auto-update --settings=/etc/gitea/auto-update.ini
+```
+# Run manual update`
+```
+gitea-auto-update --settings=/etc/gitea/auto-update.ini
+```
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