Automatic notification of updates

hhh · 2015-09-26 19:10:23

BunsenLabs Hydrogen packages have been getting regular updates as we've been doing a lot of work, but this may slow down in the future. Debian jessie itself receives rather infrequent updates (hence stable).

pk-update-icon is a notification-tray icon that appears when a package update is available, and is handy if you forget or don't care to manually check for updates (though you should, relying on software to do this is not the safest practice). It is available in jessie-backports...
http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
https://packages.debian.org/jessie-back … pdate-icon

After installing it (I used the --no-install-recommends switch), just reboot or start it by running 'pk-update-icon' w/out quotes in your Run dialog (Alt+F2). The tray icon and notification dialog only appear if an update is available. You don't need to add it to ~/.config/openbox/autostart.

Bearded_Blunder · 2015-09-26 21:09:13

I use Windows to remind me, when that nags me about updates, I do #! too.

Sector11 · 2015-09-26 21:20:58

I use "up2" almost daily.

    $ up2
alias up2 = sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade --no-install-recommends

I don't have synaptic installed.

flaneur · 2015-09-27 01:00:23

Sector11 wrote:

I use "up2" almost daily.
    $ up2
alias up2 = sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade --no-install-recommends
I don't have synaptic installed.

I use

command1 && command2

I understand that "&&" requires the preceding command to be executed successfully whereas with ";" the following command executes whether or not the previous command is successful.

Sector11 · 2015-09-27 01:12:36

^ OH! Now to change my aliases back.
I used

cmd1 && cmd2

for the longest time, and only recently, by comparison, I started using " ; " as I saw it being used in a script some place and thought; "hey that's cool".

Thanks for the insight.

EDIT: Aliases changed.

Last edited by Sector11 (2015-09-27 01:20:14)

ohnonot · 2015-09-27 22:17:36

^ S11, it does different things. the "&&" means that the previous command must have returned a "success" code for the latter to be executed. that makes sense with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
the ";" means that the second command goes ahead regardless of how the previous exited. also makes sense in some situations (e.g. ~/.config/openbox/autostart).

Sector11 · 2015-09-28 12:36:55

^ I'll do some reading up on that. Up until now I though " && " and " ; " were the same - and with me and my typing ; is faster and easier.

damo · 2015-09-28 12:42:23

Sector11 wrote:

^ I'll do some reading up on that. Up until now I though " && " and " ; " were the same - and with me and my typing ; is faster and easier.

alias ;=' && '

]:D

Sector11 · 2015-09-28 12:49:39

Ahhhhh but does an alias work within and alias?

alias up2 = sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade --no-install-recommends

hhh · 2015-09-28 16:15:25

Anyway, this package prompts you to upgrade by clicking stuff. 8o

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Automatic notification of updates

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