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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread SDA
ion 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

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

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
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

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
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. Who do you t

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-14 Thread Matthew McKinnon
t; > 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. Woul

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
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
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 the pac

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-05 Thread Dominik George
; 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 or cinnamo

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

2016-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Stanley Reznicek <stanleyrezni...@att.net> 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

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

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). Documentation

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

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 need update

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

2013-06-28 Thread André Nunes Batista
: Who decided we don't need update-notifier any more? From: Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com Date: Thu, June 27, 2013 6:37 pm To: Debian User Lists debian-user@lists.debian.org -- Yes, I know, I've done the research

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 otoo...@otoole.dyndns.orgwrote: 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 notifier always shows

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: Wrong counter in update notifier

2011-01-19 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:09:05 +0200 John Kapnogiannis smokej...@gmail.com 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

Re: Lenny / Update-notifier mes dis toujours 2 maj dispo

2009-09-26 Thread Grégory Bulot
Cyrille cyri...@cbiot.fr à écrit le Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:15:31 +0200 as tu essayé un # apt-get dist-upgrade -s C'est ce que je fais quand j'ai un soucis de ce style. Je vois alors s'il me manque ou non un paquet visiblement diffutils de squeeze (!!??? pourtant mon pining semblait carré)

Re: Lenny / Update-notifier mes dis toujours 2 maj dispo

2009-09-26 Thread Cyrille
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:28:48 +0200 Grégory Bulot debian.l...@batman.dyndns.org wrote: Bonjour, Bonjour, le soucis est que update-notifier me dis toujours (icône dans zone icon tray) 2 maj dispo alors que si je clic sur l'icône et que je sélectionne afficher les maj(1

Re: Lenny / Update-notifier mes dis toujours 2 maj dispo

2009-09-26 Thread Grégory Bulot
segfault on libc-2.7.so) - reboot - retour à la normale (update-notifier n'apparait pas dans la icon tray, tout en restant en mémoire : ce qui semble normal car pas de maj en instance) - aptitude show aptitude : ne pars pas en segfault, j'ai même récupéré la description francophone ! [...] Aptitude

Lenny / Update-notifier mes dis toujours 2 maj dispo

2009-09-26 Thread Grégory Bulot
Bonjour, y'a quelques semaines j'ai installé une lenny que jutilise avec xfce4. le soucis est que update-notifier me dis toujours (icône dans zone icon tray) 2 maj dispo alors que si je clic sur l'icône et que je sélectionne afficher les maj(1) : j'ai votre système est à jour

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 deliberately

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, but

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

Update notifier not requesting root privileges

2009-06-01 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 things

[résolu]Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-20 Thread Grégory Bulot
Geoffroy Youri B. a écrit : Je confirme, apticron fait exactement ce que tu cherches Grégory. Je l'utilise pour le même besoin que toi et j'en suis entièrement satisfait. Simple et suffisant pour de simple notification comme indiqué dans la description. Youri je l'ai installé

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-12 Thread Grégory BULOT
Geoffroy Youri B. a écrit : Je confirme, apticron fait exactement ce que tu cherches Grégory. Je l'utilise pour le même besoin que toi et j'en suis entièrement satisfait. Simple et suffisant pour de simple notification comme indiqué dans la description. Youri je l'ai installé hier, je n'ais

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-11 Thread Hugues Larrive
Grégory BULOT a écrit : bonjour, existe-t-il un update-notifier pour la ligne de commande ? apticron : cron-script to mail impending apt updates apticron is a simple script to mail about impending apt updates such as security updates. If you need to schedule more complex APT tasks we

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-11 Thread Jacques L'helgoualc'h
Strange Fruit a écrit, lundi 11 août 2008, à 00:46 : Le dimanche 10 août 2008 19:23, Strange Fruit a écrit : echo Il suffit de taper la commande echo maj echo dans un terminal pour mettre le système à jour. Je précise pour ceux qui se

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-11 Thread Zoser BIZIKI
Grégory BULOT a écrit : bonjour, existe-t-il un update-notifier pour la ligne de commande ? mon idée est de recevoir un mail de mon serveur lorsqu'il y a uniquement des maj disponible (un aptitude upgrade est trop bavard) il existe un *apticron* qui envoie des mails lorsque de nouveaux

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-11 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
Bonjour, Le dimanche 10 août 2008, Jean-Michel OLTRA a écrit... cron-apt possède une variable MAILON, qu'on peut mettre à upgrade. Je suppose (je viens de l'essayer, je verrais demain) qu'un mail ne sera pas envoyé si il n'y a pas de mise à jour. Je confirme. MAILON=upgrade n'envoie

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-11 Thread Geoffroy Youri B.
Hugues Larrive a écrit : Grégory BULOT a écrit : bonjour, existe-t-il un update-notifier pour la ligne de commande ? apticron : cron-script to mail impending apt updates apticron is a simple script to mail about impending apt updates such as security updates. If you need to schedule more

update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Grégory BULOT
bonjour, existe-t-il un update-notifier pour la ligne de commande ? mon idée est de recevoir un mail de mon serveur lorsqu'il y a uniquement des maj disponible (un aptitude upgrade est trop bavard) je m'oriente donc vers cron-apt, mais comme j'ai pas de maj en attente je sais pas si cela

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
Bonjour, Le dimanche 10 août 2008, Grégory BULOT a écrit... uniquement des maj disponible (un aptitude upgrade est trop bavard) je m'oriente donc vers cron-apt, mais comme j'ai pas de maj en attente je sais pas si cela fonctionne - je ne veux pas de lancement de maj, juste la

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Strange Fruit
Le dimanche 10 août 2008 18:37, Grégory BULOT a écrit : bonjour, existe-t-il un update-notifier pour la ligne de commande ? mon idée est de recevoir un mail de mon serveur lorsqu'il y a uniquement des maj disponible (un aptitude upgrade est trop bavard) je m'oriente donc vers cron-apt

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Jacques L'helgoualc'h
Strange Fruit a écrit, dimanche 10 août 2008, à 19:23 : Le dimanche 10 août 2008 18:37, Grégory BULOT a écrit : bonjour, [...] Bonjour, bonjour, Je ne sais ce qui existe au juste mais ce n'est pas bien compliqué à faire soit même. +1 Ci-dessous, voici un script bash que j'utilise à

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Strange Fruit
Le dimanche 10 août 2008 23:20, Jacques L'helgoualc'h a écrit : Ci-dessous, voici un script bash que j'utilise à cette fin. [...] S'il y a des propositions pour l'améliorer... [...] nbretest=10 # nbre de lignes de la réponse de la commande upgrade # au-delà duquel il y a

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Strange Fruit
Le dimanche 10 août 2008 19:23, Strange Fruit a écrit : echo Il suffit de taper la commande echo maj echo dans un terminal pour mettre le système à jour. Je précise pour ceux qui se demanderait quoi : sur mes machines il y a dans le bash des

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread boushi
Le Monday 11 August 2008 00:46:10 Strange Fruit, vous avez écrit : Tiens j'ai vu que dans une Ubuntu aptitude safe-upgrade ( ? de mémoire) doit être préféré à aptitude upgrade. C'est une modif d'ubuntu ou est-ce pour les prochaines versions Debian ? Qu'en est-il dans Lenny ? La version

Re: update-notifier est fou?

2008-08-06 Thread Christophe Alonso
Le mardi 05 août 2008 à 00:54 +0200, Gaëtan PERRIER a écrit : Bonjour, Depuis quelques temps l'update notifier de Gnome n'arrête pas de me dire qu'il y a des mises à jours alors qu'il n'y en a pas. Est-ce juste chez moi ou c'est pareil chez vous? Gaëtan Bonsoir,

Re: update-notifier est fou?

2008-08-05 Thread Loran 42o
bonjour, j'ai eu le même syndrôme sur une Lenny Amd64. j'ai dus ouvrir synaptic et mettre à jour par se biais pour résoudre le problème Cordialement, ps: désolé pour le message direct Gaëtan. 2008/8/5 Gaëtan PERRIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonjour, Depuis quelques temps l'update notifier de Gnome

update-notifier est fou?

2008-08-04 Thread Gaëtan PERRIER
Bonjour, Depuis quelques temps l'update notifier de Gnome n'arrête pas de me dire qu'il y a des mises à jours alors qu'il n'y en a pas. Est-ce juste chez moi ou c'est pareil chez vous? Gaëtan -- Lisez la FAQ de la liste avant de poser une question : http://wiki.debian.org/DebFrFrenchLists

Re: Reemplazo de update-notifier en Lenny

2008-06-09 Thread boube
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola lista, Resulta que no me sale el icono de advertencia de actualizaciones y conseguí que update-notifier ni esta instalado ni esta disponible para Leny. ¿Saben cual es su reemplazo? No está disponible por un problema de

Reemplazo de update-notifier en Lenny

2008-06-08 Thread Manuel
Hola lista, Resulta que no me sale el icono de advertencia de actualizaciones y conseguí que update-notifier ni esta instalado ni esta disponible para Leny. ¿Saben cual es su reemplazo? Por ahora instalé apt-watch pero no se cual es el reemplazo dado que update-notifier esta en stable y sid pero

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 the actual

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 see that particular option. You

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 can't see

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]

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 can turn-off the update-notifier

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 see where

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 actual apps are running. It just