On Thu 28 Jan 2016 at 05:28:08 (+0000), Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, > as a daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. > > Google suggests that this bug was resolved in Jessie. However, even after > updating to Jessie 8.3 recently, I still do not have any notifications. > > When (just out of curiosity) I run GNOME Package Updater (or whatever it > is called) it reports "All packages up to date" but running apt-get right > after brings new updates, as it was today. > > I tried all suggestions found on Google, like using 'dconf-editor' to > tweak the 'Shell update plugin' settings, etc., but without any results. > > I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things, since I > still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be nice to have as a > reminder. > > Anyone to suggest something helpful?
My root's crontab contains: MAILTO=myself@localhost 0 */12 * * * apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq -d upgrade && find /var/cache/apt/archives/ -name '*deb' I clean my cache (because I have a machine running apt-cacher-ng) so any debs that are listed will be new ones. Cheers, David.