Re: [wlug] Where do I go on the Internet ask general questions about Debian Lenny?
Thank you, all. I'll be watching the Debian forums and the "debian-user" mailing list now. I didn't know about them. (I'm watching at "debian-user" via Gmane.org's NNTP feed - KNode is nicer to use than Google Groups.) I'm using KDE 3.5 on Debian Lenny. "update-notifier" *says* it will work on KDE. I've followed the advice I just found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27109 I think what it says to do is the command-line equivalent to using "System > Preferences > Session", which isn't there in Debian. "update-notify" is running in the background now, and a grey icon appeared (and disappeared) in the KDE System Tray. I'll wait for an update to come up and see what happens. If nothing, I'll subscribe to "debian-user" and ask. On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 4:22:46 pm John Billings wrote:
I find the Debian forums are a good resource:
Or using this google interface to the user list:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/topics
When I plugged "update-notifier" in the search box on that user list page, the first thread that came up talks about restoring update-notifier in gnome:
There is a panel applet called "notification area", where update-notifier puts the alert, make sure you have that on one of your panels.
Best, John
Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
Where do I go on the Internet ask general questions about Debian Lenny?
(The question is: I've installed 'update-notifier', but it never notifies me of any package updates. The README gives me a feeling I'm supposed to set something up, but I'm not sure what or how.)
At a guess, you probably need to run 'update-notifier' in your Gnome or KDE session .. Under Ubuntu it's System > Preferences > Session to have things run automatically at login (In Jaunty it's renamed to Startup Applications), it's probably somewhere similar in Debian. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 5:32:36 pm Glyn Webster wrote:
Thank you, all.
I'm using KDE 3.5 on Debian Lenny. "update-notifier" *says* it will work on KDE. I've followed the advice I just found here:
"update-notify" is running in the background now, and a grey icon appeared (and disappeared) in the KDE System Tray. I'll wait for an update to come up and see what happens. If nothing, I'll subscribe to "debian-user" and ask.
[I am replying to myself to report back.] It worked for me! The Update Notify icon is a 'notification' rather than an 'applet', so it only appears in the system tray when that the Apt repository database is updated. I can make it pop up by running "apt-get update". I just need to set up "apt-get update" to run every time I turn on my PC now, and things will work like I expected. (Synaptic has a tick box to schedule automatic daily updates, but they seem to happen at unpredictable times.) Putting a "apt-get update" script in "/etc/rc*.d" somewhere seems to be the right thing to do. The mystery is why this didn't work out-of-the-box. --Glyn
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