Thanks Nicolas and Gene
@ Nicolas, I looked for it in Synaptic before I posted my initial request 5 days ago. I am using Debian Stretch with Slavek's repository and it doesn't appear to be in it. The link you posted certainly says adept but the only adept on my system is adept-common and it is the etch version.

@ Gene, I understand where you are coming from, each to their own. You prefer lists because they are easier for you, I prefer forums because they are easier for me. With regards to my ISP, trinity-users is whitelisted already and has been ever since I got my first warning from the mailing robot. I still get the warnings but this is the first time that I have never received a reply to a topic I have started. 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.

On 13 October 2016 at 18:40, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
On Wednesday 12 October 2016 23:15:14 Michael . wrote:

> Well it seems the mailing list isn't working. I sent the above message
> 5 days ago and never received a reply back via email.

We got it, and at lest 1 reply.  If you didn't get the echo or the reply,
talk to your ISP.

> I thought I'd
> check the web archive and lo and behold there is a reply (thanks
> Michele) but I never received it. This is the main reason I use
> forums, mailing lists and clunky and often fail at simple things.

While I find mailing lists to work well, and the need to log into a forum
& navigate to the thread you want to read a major PITA and time killer.

> @Michele I thought I'd give it a go, and thus asked the question,
> because the replacements (packagekit etc.) for update-notifier and
> update-manager are just short of useless. I am able to install and use
> update-notifier and update-manager successfully in GTK based DEs and
> even update-notifier-kde in KDE but have not found anything suitable
> for Trinity. Do you have any recommendations?
>
> On 8 October 2016 at 17:33, Michael . <keltoiboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to install adept (from etch) on TDE but it keeps telling
> > me that the dependency of kdelibs4c2a is uninstalable. I would like
> > to find out that the TDE equivalent for this package is so I can
> > change the dependency in the control file because I am going to try
> > to rebuild the adept packages in stretch and sid.

My experiments involving adept have been very distastefull, in 2 cases
resulted in a re-install to sort it out.  So I always revert to synaptic
in the form of synaptic-pkexec, which is a sudo-like wrapper that gives
you root rights to run it.  Give it a try.  Once you've sorted out the
damages adept has done, it Just Works(TM).  Adept apparently is, and has
been unsupported for several years according to what I've read on other
lists.

Hopefully this will get thru your ISP's filters. You may have to do what
I did when I was forced to use my ISP's mail server, call up their
network support guy and setup a whitelist.

> > Cheers.
> > Michael.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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