Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:22:27AM +0100, didier gaumet wrote: [...] > Hello Tomas, Hello, Didier > > Both Peter & Lee have suggested more pertinent (GUI) options for an > ordinary user but for the record, either unattended-upgrades and cron- > apt can be configured to automatically update but

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-13 Thread didier gaumet
Le dimanche 12 décembre 2021 à 18:01 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : [...] > I'm not looking for something doing the updates automatically (in the > kind of unattended-upgrades, for example). The user in question would > like to manually trigger the upgrades, to be aware of possible issues >

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-13 Thread tomas
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 04:53:56PM -0500, Lee wrote: > On 12/12/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the user of pending APT updates? > I went looking a year or two ago & didn't find anything I liked. I > finally decided my crontab entry was good enuf: Thanks, Lee, nice idea. The user in

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-12 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 12/12/21 9:01 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Hi, is there anything in Debian's flavour of the Mate DE which notifies the user of pending APT updates? I use package-update-indicator I don't care for the default so I set the command for installing updates as synaptic-pkexec I'm not looki

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-12 Thread Lee
On 12/12/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hi, > > is there anything in Debian's flavour of the Mate DE which notifies > the user of pending APT updates? I went looking a year or two ago & didn't find anything I liked. I finally decided my crontab entry was good enuf: $ sudo crontab -l [sudo] passwo

Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-12 Thread tomas
Hi, is there anything in Debian's flavour of the Mate DE which notifies the user of pending APT updates? I'm not looking for something doing the updates automatically (in the kind of unattended-upgrades, for example). The user in question would like to manually trigger the upgrades, to be aware o

Re: Why not include an update notifier in Xfce by default?

2018-05-27 Thread chercheur
I gave it a spin in my head. Can PackageKit not be available on all architectures and is it a prerequisite? Regards.

Why not include an update notifier in Xfce by default?

2018-05-25 Thread chercheur
Hi friends, Is there any reason not to include pk-update-icon in task-xfce-desktop? Being a desktop environment, it seems essential to have a notifier of security updates and patches, when not? I would like to have a default installation unattended in the hands of the user. My congratulations t

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 20-05-17, Yvan Masson wrote: > I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue > for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security > updates every day. > > > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > > > In Debian Stretch ins

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread deloptes
Yvan Masson wrote: > So I suppose that Gnome and KDE should display user notification about > updates. > - I can tell that it is not the case for Gnome in Stretch (at least on > my desktop), which makes me really disappointed. Is there anyone here > who gets update notifications under Gnome in Str

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread Yvan Masson
I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security updates every day. > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > In Debian Stretch install pk-update-icon. > > This package works b

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread SDA
notification would pop up. > It never did. I know about doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade,but why > should we have to use a command line? It makes me wonder about Debian > security. Would you please put an update notifier in all your versions of > Debian. > There

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:12:53AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 09:03:47 AM Darac Marjal wrote: -- For more information, please reread. I love your sig! (It often works.) I can't claim credit for it, I'm afraid. It was (still is?) the strapline for Public Info

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 09:03:47 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > -- > For more information, please reread. I love your sig! (It often works.)

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread RavenLX
On 05/17/2017 08:59 AM, Frank wrote: Op 17-05-17 om 14:42 schreef RavenLX: I love that Debian doesn't have an updater/notifier. Erm... gnome-packagekit + pk-update-icon ? No thanks. Not for me. But I think the OP might like it. :) I actually wasn't being sarcastic in my message. I actually

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread Darac Marjal
;t tell me there is one, because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a notification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command line? It makes me wonder about Debian security. Would you please put

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread Frank
Op 17-05-17 om 14:42 schreef RavenLX: I love that Debian doesn't have an updater/notifier. Erm... gnome-packagekit + pk-update-icon ? Regards, Frank (yes, that one...)

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread RavenLX
I waited a long time to see if a notification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command line? It makes me wonder about Debian security. Would you please put an update notifier in all your versions of Debian. Wh

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-14 Thread Matthew McKinnon
s one, > > because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a > > notification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt-get > > update && apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command > > line? It makes me wonder about Debian secu

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
f a > notification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt-get > update && apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command > line? It makes me wonder about Debian security. Would you please put > an update notifier in all your versions of Debian. > Who do you think you are talking to?

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-05 Thread Debian Mailing Lists
ification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt- > get update && apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command > line? It makes me wonder about Debian security. Would you please put > an update notifier in all your versions of Debian. You can also install

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-05 Thread Dominik George
pt-get > update && apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command > line? It makes me wonder about Debian security. Would you please put > an update notifier in all your versions of Debian. $ apt install gnome-packagekit If you think it should be part of the desktop task

Update Notifier

2017-05-05 Thread sarez45
&& apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command line? It makes me wonder about Debian security. Would you please put an update notifier in all your versions of Debian.

Re: UPDATE NOTIFIER

2016-05-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Stanley Reznicek wrote: > > Why is there no update notifier in Debian 8.4.0? It's been replaced by gnome-packagekit. > A better selection of desktop wallpapers would be nice. A little silly to keep more than a basic selection in the packages

UPDATE NOTIFIER

2016-05-05 Thread Stanley Reznicek
Why is there no update notifier in Debian 8.4.0? A better selection of desktop wallpapers would be nice. One more question, is remote root login disabled and how should it read in the sshd configuration file? The user login picture does not show up even after being selected several times

Re: I made a thing: APT update notifier script for xfce4-genmon-plugin

2015-07-19 Thread Enno Weichert
And already goofed up. I thought I had tested it but I guess not. The attached version doesn't work if there are no updates. The current version is on Github: https://gist.github.com/weichert/4931be14cc93443ad74f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

I made a thing: APT update notifier script for xfce4-genmon-plugin

2015-07-19 Thread Enno Weichert
Hi, since there isn't an update-notifier for the XFCE panel anymore and pk-update-icon isn't in Jessie and apparently has large dependencies to build as of yet, this is a small script to do just that. It uses xfce4-genmon-plugin (or actually it's the other way around). Do

Re: Who decided we don't need update-notifier any more?

2013-06-28 Thread André Nunes Batista
al Message Subject: Who decided we don't need update-notifier any more? From: "Patrick Wiseman" Date: Thu, June 27, 2013 6:37 pm To: "Debian User Lists" -- > Yes, I know, I've done the resear

Re: Who decided we don't need update-notifier any more?

2013-06-28 Thread Jeff Shearer
My answer to many of Gnome's upgrades was to switch to KDE, but after the install I still get Gnome.� I have tried to finde where I through the switch.� Do you know? Original Message Subject: Who decided we don't n

Who decided we don't need update-notifier any more?

2013-06-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Yes, I know, I've done the research and some GNOME folks decided we don't need it any more and "upgraded" us (I'm speaking of those of us on a testing system) to GNOME PackageKit. Well, since I use aptitude for all my package management, I don't consider it much of an upgrade. Why do people insist

Re: Wrong counter in update notifier

2011-01-20 Thread John Kapnogiannis
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > --002215046c7b454ae8049a3d9e57 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > Hello. I am using a mix of testing and unstable with kde. The update > >

Re: Wrong counter in update notifier

2011-01-19 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:09:05 +0200 John Kapnogiannis wrote: > Hello. I am using a mix of testing and unstable with kde. The update > notifier always shows a wrong counter. If there are > no updates it shows 2. Else if the number of updates is n it shows > n+2. This gets annoying caus

Wrong counter in update notifier

2011-01-19 Thread John Kapnogiannis
Hello. I am using a mix of testing and unstable with kde. The update notifier always shows a wrong counter. If there are no updates it shows 2. Else if the number of updates is n it shows n+2. This gets annoying cause it pops up everytime I log in. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks John

Re: Update notifier not requesting root privileges [SOLVED]

2009-06-02 Thread AG
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,02.Jun.09, 17:52:15, AG wrote: I don't know if this will help debugging this any, but apt-get requires a password but the Update Manager (Synaptic, I believe) from within Xfce4 doesn't. Has anyone else noticed this? I wouldn't mind forcing it to request ro

Re: Update notifier not requesting root privileges

2009-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,02.Jun.09, 17:52:15, AG wrote: >> > I don't know if this will help debugging this any, but apt-get requires > a password but the Update Manager (Synaptic, I believe) from within > Xfce4 doesn't. > > Has anyone else noticed this? I wouldn't mind forcing it to request > root's password,

Re: Update notifier not requesting root privileges

2009-06-02 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hello After having a recent fresh installation, I've noticed that the update notifier no longer seeks root privileges before downloading/ installing software packages. This is not a big concern as I am the only user. However, I do like the reassurance of having to deliber

Update notifier not requesting root privileges

2009-05-31 Thread AG
Hello After having a recent fresh installation, I've noticed that the update notifier no longer seeks root privileges before downloading/ installing software packages. This is not a big concern as I am the only user. However, I do like the reassurance of having to deliberately do thin

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter & update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-24 Thread andy
Linas Žvirblis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: Thanks Sven. This a.m. "update-notifier" reappeared as it should in the notification area. Now all the notification area is missing is the OOo quickstart app. I've dug around in various menus but

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter & update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-24 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: > Thanks Sven. This a.m. "update-notifier" reappeared as it should in the > notification area. Now all the notification area is missing is the OOo > quickstart app. I've dug around in various menus but can't

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter & update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-24 Thread andy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 23:19 +, andy wrote: To be honest Andrew, I am not at all sure what I did! :( I used to have the OOo quickstart, and the update-notifier in the "notification area" of the Gnome panel. However, I seem to have deleted them, even though

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter & update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 23:19 +, andy wrote: > To be honest Andrew, I am not at all sure what I did! :( I used to > have the OOo quickstart, and the update-notifier in the "notification > area" of the Gnome panel. However, I seem to have deleted them, even > though the a

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter & update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-23 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:46:43PM +, andy wrote: Hi I seem to have removed the OOo quick start and the update-notifier icon on the Gnome panel. I don't know how to recover them. Anybody got any ideas? Are they actually running? I can't

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter & update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:46:43PM +, andy wrote: > Hi > > I seem to have removed the OOo quick start and the update-notifier icon > on the Gnome panel. I don't know how to recover them. Anybody got any ideas? Are they actually running? I can't see where you c

Recovering OOo rapid starter & update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-23 Thread andy
Hi I seem to have removed the OOo quick start and the update-notifier icon on the Gnome panel. I don't know how to recover them. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks /A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]