Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments
At Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:57:38 -0600 Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:24:59 +0000
> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <teo.en.ming@protonmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Saturday, August 30th, 2025 at 9:40 PM, Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > Also required is something that tells you there are software updates
> > > you should install. Maybe there's already a package that does that -
> > > I don't know. I ended up writing my own script.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Lee
> >
> > You mean Debian doesn't inform you if your OS needs an update?
>
> I don't know of any way to only have it automatically inform you of
> updates. You could probably write a systemd unit or two to have it run
> "apt list --upgradable" from time to time. Synaptic might have something
> of the kind.
>
> Or you can have it install upgrades automatically by installing the
> unattended-upgrades package. I have mine send emails so I can review
> the results. It does occasionally hit an odd error which requires
> manual intervention.
I use a cron job on my vps:
0 3 * * 0 /usr/local/sbin/check-update.sh | /usr/bin/mail -s 'check-update' heller@deepsoft.com
sharky5% cat /usr/local/sbin/check-update.sh
#!/bin/bash
apt update
apt list --upgradable
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