What command to use in Package Update Indicator on Debian 10?
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Maybe you have to close the preferences window before the buttons in the main window become active.
[rant]This is the kind of thing that seriously annoys me! Why add an extra layer of complication to updating? What's wrong with just using the identical commands in a terminal?[/rant]
[rant]This is the kind of thing that seriously annoys me! Why add an extra layer of complication to updating? What's wrong with just using the identical commands in a terminal?[/rant]
Code:
apt show package-update-indicator
Package: package-update-indicator
Version: 4-2
Priority: optional
<snip>
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Download-Size: 30.9 kB
APT-Sources: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
Description: Notify about available software updates
This small utility which regularly checks for software updates and notifies
the user about available updates using desktop notifications and either
a status notifier icon or a system tray icon.
.
It is primarily intended for desktops which do not already have this
functionality built-in, such as Xfce.
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The command for installing updates was blank by default. I brought it back to that. I will just use the program to tell me of updates available and manually update then via the terminal.
The command for installing updates was blank by default. I brought it back to that. I will just use the program to tell me of updates available and manually update then via the terminal.
I installed it, and opened up the prefs
Code:
/usr/bin/gpk-update-viewer
was the default
maybe it is different in Buster
changes you make to the config will end up in
~/.config/package-update-indicator/
exit your DE
move ( or remove ) ~/.config/package-update-indicator/
74 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 133 MB of archives.
After this operation, 15.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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These tools work very well for servers, but desktop users generally prefer a more interactive system. That is why the “Debian desktop environment” task installs gnome-packagekit (at least when you select GNOME as desktop environment). It provides an icon in the notification area of desktop environments when updates are available; clicking on this icon then runs gpk-update-viewer, a simplified interface to perform updates. You can browse through available updates, read the short description of the relevant packages and the corresponding changelog entries, and select whether to apply the update or not on a case-by-case basis.
The following packages will be upgraded:
lightning thunderbird
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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