update-notifier

NAME

update-notifier − Notifies about package updates

SYNOPSIS

update-notifier [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

Update Notifier can be used to check for the availability of new packages for your Debian system. When it detects new versions of the packages installed on the system are available, it will add an icon on the desktop notification area.

For Update Notifier to detect new available updates a task has to run periodically to update the package database. You can use the Software Properties application (software-properties-gtk if you run GNOME or software-properties-kde if you run KDE) to setup that task up.

Such as task is also available in Debian systems if the cron-apt package is installed, a simpler task is available at /usr/share/doc/update-notifier/examples/update-notifier.cron.daily which has to be installed in /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier

OPTIONS

−−debug−hooks

Enable hooks debugging

−−display=DISPLAY

X display to use

update-notifier also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

update-notifier was written by Michiel Sikkes <michiel AT eyesopened DOT nl> and others.

This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa AT whiz DOT se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).