On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:29:10AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > - From the documentation I gather, that update-manager would probably work > on kde, but that it just checks, if the package information has changed. > This would have to occur either manually or by some cron job, cron-apt > etc. So _at least_ it requires reading some manuals and manual > configuration. update-notifier also does not suggest or recommend > cron-apt or any other backend to commit the required 'aptitude update'. > Did you actually tried update-notifier on KDE? update-notifier checks himself if the package information has changed periodically. There's no need for update-notifier to depend on cron-apt or any 'backend' as it already does the job. If you ask it to install new software it will run update-manager. Regards Javier
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