Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:22:27AM +0100, didier gaumet wrote: [...] > Hello Tomas, Hello, Didier > > Both Peter & Lee have suggested more pertinent (GUI) options for an > ordinary user but for the record, either unattended-upgrades and cron- > apt can be configured to automatically update but

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-13 Thread didier gaumet
Le dimanche 12 décembre 2021 à 18:01 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : [...] > I'm not looking for something doing the updates automatically (in the > kind of unattended-upgrades, for example). The user in question would > like to manually trigger the upgrades, to be aware of possible issues >

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-13 Thread tomas
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 04:53:56PM -0500, Lee wrote: > On 12/12/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the user of pending APT updates? > I went looking a year or two ago & didn't find anything I liked. I > finally decided my crontab entry was good enuf: Thanks, Lee, nice idea. The user in

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-12 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 12/12/21 9:01 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Hi, is there anything in Debian's flavour of the Mate DE which notifies the user of pending APT updates? I use package-update-indicator I don't care for the default so I set the command for installing updates as synaptic-pkexec I'm not looki

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-12 Thread Lee
On 12/12/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hi, > > is there anything in Debian's flavour of the Mate DE which notifies > the user of pending APT updates? I went looking a year or two ago & didn't find anything I liked. I finally decided my crontab entry was good enuf: $ sudo crontab -l [sudo] passwo

Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-12 Thread tomas
Hi, is there anything in Debian's flavour of the Mate DE which notifies the user of pending APT updates? I'm not looking for something doing the updates automatically (in the kind of unattended-upgrades, for example). The user in question would like to manually trigger the upgrades, to be aware o