Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-02-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 01:53:33AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with Debian, > > so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron run it in > > the middle of the night. It downloads the updates, and in the morning I > >

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-02-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
I use the downlod files only switch, then run the update when opportunity presents. Original Message From: Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> Sent: Mon Feb 01 19:25:24 AEDT 2016 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notific

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 01/27/2016 11:37 PM, Tixy wrote: >> On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 05:54 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> [...] I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things, >>> since I still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
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Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Teemu Likonen wrote: > --=-=-= > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Liam O'Toole [2016-01-30 14:20:30Z] wrote: > >> aptitude search ~new > > You mean: > > aptitude search \?new > Oops yes, you are correct. The

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> For Jessie, we patched update-notification support back into > gnome-settings-daemon: > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-settings-daemon/ news/20141204T233404Z.html > > So, in Jessie, gnome-setting-daemon is responsible for the update > notifications. In stretch and sid, gnome-software

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-29, Curt wrote: > On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade notficiations should work. >>> >>> On my

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade >> notficiations should work. > > On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed. > > Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >>> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade >>> notficiations should work. >> >> On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit'

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 01:42:02AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: [...] > Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade > notficiations should work. Related, but possibly relevant -- I'm struggling with the same problem in

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 03:03:16PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-01-29, Curt wrote: > > On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> I don't get it. I mean I got it (using Squeeze, and Gnome) and it's >> convenient, but I don't get it. > > What don't you get? > I misread the link I gave you to mean that update-notifier was now contained in gnome-packagekit,

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-29, wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 03:03:16PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-01-29, Curt wrote: >> > On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> >> On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:30:45 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2016 01:53:33 Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> > I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with >> > Debian, so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron >> > run it in the middle of the

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Juan, Am 29.01.2016 um 02:51 schrieb Juan R. de Silva: >> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade >> notficiations should work. > > On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed. > > Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/27/2016 11:37 PM, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 05:54 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: [...] I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things, since I still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be nice to have as a reminder. Anyone to suggest something helpful? For

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
These are all nice but only workarounds. For those who wondered what tool is supposed to provide such notifications... GNOME notification system includes between others an "update plugin", which supposed to do the job. As it does it (and quite nicely) in openSUSE GNOME 16. However it does

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Glenn English
> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: > > These are all nice but only workarounds. Late into the thread. I'm sure someone has already suggested this, but just in case... I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with Debian, so

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 28.01.2016 um 06:28 schrieb Juan R. de Silva: > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, > as a daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. > > Google suggests that this bug

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 January 2016 05:54:43 Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, > > as a daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. > > I have never had any

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 January 2016 08:45:52 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2016 05:54:43 Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > > > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. > > > So, as a daily routine I

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade > notficiations should work. On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed. Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I simply does not exist on my system.

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with Debian, > so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron run it in > the middle of the night. It downloads the updates, and in the morning I > have email telling me what needs to be updated and why, and instructions >

RE: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-27 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, Juan, > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, as a > daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. I have never had any notification of available updates unless I

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-27 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 05:54 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > [...] > > I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things, > since I still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be nice to have > as a reminder. > > Anyone to suggest something helpful? > > For as long as I have been

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jan 2016 at 05:28:08 (+), Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, > as a daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. > > Google