Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
On 2016-01-29, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 03:03:16PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2016-01-29, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>> > On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade
>> >>>> notficiations should work.
>> >>>
>> >>> On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed.
>> >>>
>> >>> Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I simply does not exist on
>> >>> my system.
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, gnome-software didn't make it into jessie. That's the
>> >> reason for the lack of desktop notifications in default installations.
>> >>
>> >
>> > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/update-notifier
>>
>> >From the package description of update-notifier (in jessie):
>> "Transitional dummy package replacing update-notifier with
>> GNOME-PackageKit". But gnome-package kit alone does not provide update
>> notifications.
>
> Now is there anyone out there who knows *what* is supposed to provide
> update notifications?
It seems not. The blog entry[1] mentioned by Juan elsewhere in this
thread gives some official advice, but even then some users still don't
receive desktop notifications.
> That would help a couple of folks, myself included :-)
And me.
[1]
http://blog.tenstral.net/2015/09/update-notifications-in-debian-jessie.html
--
Liam
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