Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject	Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier
Date	2021-12-13 17:00 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:22:27AM +0100, didier gaumet wrote:

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> Hello Tomas,

Hello, Didier
> 
>  Both Peter & Lee have suggested more pertinent (GUI) options for an
> ordinary user but for the record, either unattended-upgrades and cron-
> apt can be configured to automatically update but let the user/admin
> manually upgrade if she/he whishes so (it's not the default nowadays in
> Debian with unattended-upgrades but I think this is still the default
> with cron-apt).
>  Installing apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs can help prevent problems
> with automatic upgrades: the former warns by e-mail of configuration or
> usage changes in a package, the latter can block a bugged upgrade until
> the bug is fixed or the user/admin decides on upgrading because a
> particular bug does not bother her/him.

Warm thanks -- this is for a decidedly GUI person. I've tried to seduce
her to console and a bit of shell, alas, without success.

Best for her seems to be a notification with a button where she can say
"do now!" and another for "later" or something similar.

Package-update-indicator sounds like right, I'll try that.

Cheers, salut
-- 
tomás

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Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-12-12 18:20 +0100
  Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-12-12 23:00 +0100
  Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-12-12 23:50 +0100
    Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-12-13 09:10 +0100
  Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-12-13 10:30 +0100
    Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-12-13 17:00 +0100

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