Update notifier/manager for MATE

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Adrian, hi Tomas,

On  Di 08 Sep 2015 20:33:26 CEST, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> Hi Tomas!
>
> On 09/06/2015 05:39 PM, tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:
>> Is there something like that for MATE? Which package provides it?
>> Otherwise: any alternatives/workarounds?
>
> I think you're looking for gnome-packagekit which does exactly
> what you're looking for. It works nicely with MATE on my laptop.
>
> gnome-packagekit runs gpk-update-viewer to display an update
> dialog, see [1]. You will probably need to add a cron job
> for APT in /etc/cron.daily/apt to keep your package index
> up-to-date which seems necessary for gpk-update-viewer to
> pop up automatically.
>
> Adrian
>
>> [1]
> https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.regular-upgrades.html

I have just spotted this tiny tool (from jessie-backports, if running jessie):
https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/pk-update-icon

Maybe that is useful to you.

Mike
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