14 Oct
2016
14 Oct
'16
5:09 a.m.
On 2016/10/13 12:02 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2016 schrieb Michael .:
Fantastic!! Many thanks Nik.
Cheers
Michele
[...] 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:
1) 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) &
2) 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