Update notifier for MATE (still not working)

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 05:57:18PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
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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.

Hah. That easy? Now that'd be good news!

Thanks a million!

I'll try and report back.

Regards
- -- tomás
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