Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications
On 2016-01-30, Jimmy Johnson <jimmyjhn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/2016 11:37 PM, Tixy wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 05:54 +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things,
>>> since I still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be nice to have
>>> as a reminder.
>>>> Anyone to suggest something helpful?
>>>
>>> For as long as I have been using Debian I have a little script that I
>>> run each night:
>>
>> Debian provides the apticron package to do something very similar...
>> https://www.debian-administration.org/article/491/Automatic_package_update_nagging_with_apticron
>
> If it listed new packages too, not just the ones being installed, that
> would be great! I like to see new packages being added to the
> repository too.
aptitude gives you that functionality:
aptitude search ~new
or
aptitude search ~N
--
Liam
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