On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 16:32 +0000, 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. It never did. I know about doing apt- > get update && apt-get upgrade,but why should we have to use a command > line? It makes me wonder about Debian security. Would you please put > an update notifier in all your versions of Debian.
You can also install the package pk-update-icon This can be found in the jessie-backports repo. Thanks Matt