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<h1 className={"openapi__heading"}>Applying updates</h1>

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Note that these two parameters are effectively mutually exclusive. The `tonight` parameter takes precedence and `skip` will be ignored if `tonight` is also passed


<details style={{"marginBottom":"1rem"}} className={"openapi-markdown__details"} data-collapsed={false} open={true}><summary style={{}}><strong>Query Parameters</strong></summary><div><ul><ParamsItem className={"paramsItem"} param={{"name":"tonight","description":"Indicate that you want the update to run during the next Butler execution. Omitting this or setting it to false indicates that the update should install","required":false,"in":"query","schema":{"enum":[0,1]},"example":1}}></ParamsItem><ParamsItem className={"paramsItem"} param={{"name":"skip","description":"Indicate that the latest version should be marked as skipped. The <Release> entry for this version will have the `state` set to `skipped`.","required":false,"in":"query","schema":{"enum":[0,1]},"example":1}}></ParamsItem></ul></div></details><div><div><ApiTabs><TabItem label={"200"} value={"200"}><div>

If the update process started correctly

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Unauthorized - Returned if the X-Plex-Token is missing from the header or query.

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If the update process failed to start

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