Update notifier for MATE (still not working)

Tue Dec 29 16:57:18 UTC 2015

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On 12/29/2015 03:34 PM, tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:
> What I expect: have the system notify the user about pending
> updates.
> 
> Gnome-packagekit is installed and their components can be called
> via the menu. What's missing (and was usual under Gnome in Wheezy)
> is some kind of popup appearing when there are updates pending.
> 
> Is this still supposed to work?

You have to have some daemon running in the background which regularly
runs "apt-get update" as otherwise the popup window never works.

Try apt-cron or something like that.

Adrian

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