# How to make automatic upgrades in configuration.nix work?
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [July 10, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254 "2022-07-10T12:06:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@henrydenhengst](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/henrydenhengst)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254/1 "2022-07-10T12:06:23Z")
My configuration.nix is not succesful when I insert this automatic update?!
```auto
### automatic upgrade
system.autoUpgrade = {
enable = true;
channel = "https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-22.05";
};
```
Errors:
```auto
[henry@nixos:~]$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch
error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting end of file
at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:345:20:
344| ### automatic upgrade
345| system.autoUpgrade = {
| ^
346| enable = true;
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
building Nix...
error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting end of file
at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:345:20:
344| ### automatic upgrade
345| system.autoUpgrade = {
| ^
346| enable = true;
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
building the system configuration...
error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting end of file
at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:345:20:
344| ### automatic upgrade
345| system.autoUpgrade = {
| ^
346| enable = true;
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
---
### Author:  [@Father2303](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Father2303)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254/2 "2022-07-10T16:23:56Z")
Why don’t you just use `system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;` ?
The channel is already set globally and doesn’t have to be set in `configuration.nix`.
---
### Author:  [@henrydenhengst](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/henrydenhengst)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254/3 "2022-07-10T16:28:04Z")
Still errors:
```auto
error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting end of file
at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:343:27:
342|
343| system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
| ^
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
building Nix...
error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting end of file
at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:343:27:
342|
343| system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
| ^
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
building the system configuration...
error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting end of file
at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:343:27:
342|
343| system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
| ^
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
---
### Author:  [@Father2303](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Father2303)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254/4 "2022-07-10T16:31:35Z")
Check for missing/surplus semicolons, brackets etc. **anywhere** in `configuration.nix`.
This happens easily and is difficult to spot.
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### Author:  [@henrydenhengst](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/henrydenhengst)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254/5 "2022-07-10T16:48:58Z")
system.stateVersion = “22.05”;
Should these be integrated to one?
---
### Author:  [@henrydenhengst](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/henrydenhengst)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-automatic-upgrades-in-configuration-nix-work/20254/6 "2022-07-10T17:00:08Z")
It was a ‘}’ in the wrong place afterall. OMG Sorry!
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