On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +0000, sare...@att.net wrote:
> Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install after
> all these years Debian has existed? Don'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 an update notifier in all your versions of
> Debian.
>
There is a gnome-shell extension that does this, it's configurable as well.
Should work for Cinnamon too, right? https://extensions.gnome.org/
