On 2016/10/13 12:02 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2016 schrieb Michael .:
[...] Anyway what I am after is something that supplies a notification to the user that updates are available, like update-notifier does. Synaptic is installed by default on my systems, and so is aptitude, but I want to provide my users with a visual notification when updates are available. Any suggestions for a package that does that is greatly appreciated.
A simple way for update notifier:
- run "apt-get update" on boot and/or every day/hour/... as a cronjob, ignore errors:
# crontab -e 0 10 * * * apt-get update 2>/dev/null
# /etc/rc.local - add this line: (sleep 10m; apt-get update 2>/dev/null) &
- create a file ".trinity/Autostart/updatenotifier.desktop":
$ cat > ~/.trinity/Autostart/updatenotifier.desktop << XXX [Desktop Entry] Comment= Exec[$e]=if [ $(apt-get --just-print dist-upgrade | grep "^ " | wc -l) -gt 0 ]; then xmessge "Upgrades available!"; exit; fi GenericName= Icon=application-x-executable MimeType= Name= Name[de]= Path[$e]= StartupNotify=true Terminal=false TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-DCOP-ServiceType= X-TDE-SubstituteUID=false X-TDE-Username=
XXX
Your user will get a message if updates are available just after login. Now you can get creative :-)
Nik
Fantastic!! Many thanks Nik. Cheers Michele