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Re: Missing update notification on Stretch Gnome

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On 27-05-17, Yvan Masson wrote:
> >Le 27/05/2017 à 15:27, Dejan Jocic a écrit :
> >>> On 27-05-17, Yvan Masson wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> As said "deloptes" in the previous "Update notifier" thread, there is by
> >>>> default a notification about pending updates on Stretch with Gnome.
> >>>> However, I never got any of those notifications.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have gnome-packagekit installed (which indeed has section "Povides:
> >>>> update-notifier").
> >>>>
> >>>> My source.list seems normal:
> >>>> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
> >>>> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main non-free contrib
> >>>> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main
> >>>> contrib non-free
> >>>>
> >>>> software-properties-gtk is installed and seems configured normally.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any clue of what could be tho problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Yvan
> >>>>
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Open software and updates and check settings under updates tab?
> >>> 
> 
> >> Done, here is what I have:
> >>
> >> Install updates from:
> >>   security updates (stretch/updates)
> >>   recommended updates (stretch-updates)
> >> Automatically check for updates: daily
> >> When there are security updates: display immediately
> >> Whene there are other updates: <blank>
> >>
> 
> > Please, do not reply to me directly, I'm subscribed to the mailing
> > list, you should send mail there.
> 
> Please apologize, I am used to other mail client where clicking on
> "Reply" just rely to the list by default.
> 
No problem, really, been in that situation myself :)

> > As for those settings, only difference is that I have Download and
> > install automatically in security updates, but that should not make
> > any difference. There are no security updates for stretch anyway.
> > Perhaps some settings under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ are different, or I
> > simply have some package installed that you are missing. Are you sure
> > that you do not get any notifications at all? Those are located under
> > clock and calendar with this version of Gnome. You can open them with
> > Super+m combination of keys. Also, if you do update in terminal
> > before those notifications get chance to show up, they will not be
> > displayed. And once you do update, they are gone too.
> 
> The only special configuration I have in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d is a file
> to avoid debconf prompts on update:
> Dpkg::Options {
>    "--force-confdef";
>    "--force-confold";
> }
> 
> Absolutely sure that I did not have any update notifications since
> install (2 months ago). As I did not installed gnome metapackage but
> instead installed each packages manually, I may have missed an important
> package.
> 

Perhaps you could check gnome metapackage vs your gnome packages and see
what is missing? apt-get --simulate install gnome should provide you
with some clues, I guess.

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Missing update notification on Stretch Gnome Yvan Masson <yvan.masson@openmailbox.org> - 2017-05-27 15:20 +0200
  Re: Missing update notification on Stretch Gnome Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 15:30 +0200
    Re: Missing update notification on Stretch Gnome Yvan Masson <yvan.masson@openmailbox.org> - 2017-05-27 16:50 +0200
      Re: Missing update notification on Stretch Gnome Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 17:20 +0200
        Re: Missing update notification on Stretch Gnome Yvan Masson <yvan.masson@openmailbox.org> - 2017-05-29 15:20 +0200

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