On 2016-01-29, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 03:03:16PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-01-29, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: >> > On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade >> >>>> notficiations should work. >> >>> >> >>> On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed. >> >>> >> >>> Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I simply does not exist on >> >>> my system. >> >> >> >> Unfortunately, gnome-software didn't make it into jessie. That's the >> >> reason for the lack of desktop notifications in default installations. >> >> >> > >> > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/update-notifier >> >> >From the package description of update-notifier (in jessie): >> "Transitional dummy package replacing update-notifier with >> GNOME-PackageKit". But gnome-package kit alone does not provide update >> notifications. > > Now is there anyone out there who knows *what* is supposed to provide > update notifications?
It seems not. The blog entry[1] mentioned by Juan elsewhere in this thread gives some official advice, but even then some users still don't receive desktop notifications. > That would help a couple of folks, myself included :-) And me. [1] http://blog.tenstral.net/2015/09/update-notifications-in-debian-jessie.html -- Liam
