Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 20-05-17, Yvan Masson wrote: > I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue > for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security > updates every day. > > > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > > > In Debian Stretch ins

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread deloptes
Yvan Masson wrote: > So I suppose that Gnome and KDE should display user notification about > updates. > - I can tell that it is not the case for Gnome in Stretch (at least on > my desktop), which makes me really disappointed. Is there anyone here > who gets update notifications under Gnome in Str

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread Yvan Masson
I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security updates every day. > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > In Debian Stretch install pk-update-icon. > > This package works b

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread SDA
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: > Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install after > all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, because after > installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a notification would p

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:12:53AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 09:03:47 AM Darac Marjal wrote: -- For more information, please reread. I love your sig! (It often works.) I can't claim credit for it, I'm afraid. It was (still is?) the strapline for Public Info

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 09:03:47 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > -- > For more information, please reread. I love your sig! (It often works.)

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread RavenLX
On 05/17/2017 08:59 AM, Frank wrote: Op 17-05-17 om 14:42 schreef RavenLX: I love that Debian doesn't have an updater/notifier. Erm... gnome-packagekit + pk-update-icon ? No thanks. Not for me. But I think the OP might like it. :) I actually wasn't being sarcastic in my message. I actually

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 08:42:17AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: On 05/14/2017 04:03 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me t

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread Frank
Op 17-05-17 om 14:42 schreef RavenLX: I love that Debian doesn't have an updater/notifier. Erm... gnome-packagekit + pk-update-icon ? Regards, Frank (yes, that one...)

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-17 Thread RavenLX
On 05/14/2017 04:03 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, because after installing Debian I waited a lo

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-14 Thread Matthew McKinnon
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:03:31PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: > > Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install > > after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, > > because after

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: > Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install > after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, > because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a > notification woul

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-05 Thread Debian Mailing Lists
On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 16:32 +, sare...@att.net wrote: > Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to > install after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there > is one, because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see > if a notification would pop up.

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-05 Thread Dominik George
> Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install > after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, > because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a > notification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt-get > update && apt-g

Re: UPDATE NOTIFIER

2016-05-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Stanley Reznicek wrote: > > Why is there no update notifier in Debian 8.4.0? It's been replaced by gnome-packagekit. > A better selection of desktop wallpapers would be nice. A little silly to keep more than a basic selection in the packages at this point, a

Re: Update notifier not requesting root privileges [SOLVED]

2009-06-02 Thread AG
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,02.Jun.09, 17:52:15, AG wrote: I don't know if this will help debugging this any, but apt-get requires a password but the Update Manager (Synaptic, I believe) from within Xfce4 doesn't. Has anyone else noticed this? I wouldn't mind forcing it to request ro

Re: Update notifier not requesting root privileges

2009-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,02.Jun.09, 17:52:15, AG wrote: >> > I don't know if this will help debugging this any, but apt-get requires > a password but the Update Manager (Synaptic, I believe) from within > Xfce4 doesn't. > > Has anyone else noticed this? I wouldn't mind forcing it to request > root's password,

Re: Update notifier not requesting root privileges

2009-06-02 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hello After having a recent fresh installation, I've noticed that the update notifier no longer seeks root privileges before downloading/ installing software packages. This is not a big concern as I am the only user. However, I do like the reassurance of having to deliberately do