On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 02:15:17AM +0200, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > May someone of you knows if their exists in the .deb world a tool which > checks for available updates and which does not need root. > > What i am looking for, is just a simple "update available" notifier > (with other package managers that's possible, but i do not see a way to > do that with apt or aptitude). >
The easiest way is to have a cron script that runs once a day, with root provileges, and calls "apt-get update". Then, your notifier could be as simple as: apt-get -s upgrade | grep "^[0-9]* upgr" | cut -d " " -f 1 which will give the number of packages that would be upgraded, and does not require root. But remember: the check should be performed only once every "apt-get update", because the result does not change if you don't update the list of available packages. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
