This is a workaround for apparently the same problem as Scott Cowles Jacobs, not receiving automatic update notifications in Lubuntu 13.10
I didn't get updates for a few weeks (last auto update 9 December 2013, after 8 December 2014 update-notifier was updated, until I manually updated about 4 January 2014.) So I put this line in Preferences > Default applications for LXSession > Autostart > + Add @/usr/bin/update-notifier That line is added to ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart (so it could also be added by editing that autostart file directly.) I used the line, ``$ ps -ef | grep "update" `` in LXTerminal to check that update-notifier wasn't running at first, and that it could run as a background process using the command ``$ update-notifier & `` and that it was running after I added it to autostart and restarted. Doing just that didn't seem to work, because there were updates waiting when I checked by manually starting Software Updater after a day. So I also installed python3-aptdaemon-pkcompat because it was on the "missing recommends" list, although I didn't know if that was correct to do, because installing that using Synaptic causes packagekit to be removed, which seems like it might defeat the purpose of having PackageKit compatibility in Python 3. (The situation of having to choose which of those packages to have installed, with both being recommended but not both allowed, seems to have started after I installed a Gnome 3 desktop environment then uninstalled it back when I was using Ubuntu+Lubuntu 13.04 before I upgraded Ubuntu+Lubuntu to 13.10.) After I had my system set up that way for over a day, I finally got my first automatic update notification in a month. The package update-notifier has some Python 3 files in it, and runs as a daemon and gets messages resulting from a file in etc/cron.daily named apt, according to some of the read me information in the update-notifier complete package, so maybe it helps to have python3-aptdaemon-pkcompat installed. Maybe packagekit is just a different frontend of the actual PackageKit system that doesn't matter unless certain applications are calling it to get updates that are specific to those applications. This is just a workaround. I haven't found a configuration file that would cause Lubuntu to run update-notifier normally. On the list of programs to start at startup in Desktop Session Settings, Update Notifier is checked, but I don't know if it should be or what effect that checkmark has. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1046563 Title: update-manager never appears on lubuntu precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1046563/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
