Update Manager

debiandonder · 2019-02-09 15:08

I installed Update Manager from the software centre, but could not find it anywhere.

I suspected that the update notifier of Debian was also not working and I use the commands sudo apt update and saw that there were updates available and used sudo apt upgrade in the terminal.

I would however like to fix the update notification feature if I can.

q4osteam · 2019-02-09 15:47

If you are using Trinity desktop and have installed update manager, it silently waits and notifies for updates as available. You only need to wait for the notification icon is shown in system tray. You can easily check updater process in terminal:
$ pgrep q4os-pkui
You should see a process id, updater is running on the background.

It's also possible to configure updater in TDE Control panel > System administration > Update Manager

debiandonder · 2019-02-09 15:58

I am sorry, I forgot to mention that I am using the KDE Plasma desktop. I runs beautifully on my AMD A10 processor, even though I am not using a graphics card.

When I checked the updates section at the lower left of the task bar at the bottom, it just showed "System up to date". I then used the terminal and typed sudo apt update and I showed that a update for the Firefox browser is available. It just installed it with sudo apt upgrade.

The notification is therefore not working in my KDE version. It's not such a big deal to me, because I know how to do manual updates via the terminal, but not many everyday users have those skills.

q4osteam · 2019-02-09 16:04

Periodic APT update is performed automatically every 24 hours, users may need to wait for that action. Check it this way:
$ apt-config dump | grep -i periodic
The "APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists" parameter should be set to "1"

debiandonder · 2019-02-09 16:42

How do I change it to notify me of updates but do not automatically install them?

Dai_trying · 2019-02-09 16:50

It does not automatically install updates, it just notifies you and you can then click the icon and it will install them (if that is what you want) or you can just manually do the updates and use the indicator as a reference only.

q4osteam · 2019-02-09 16:52

It doesn't install anything, it only updates the APT database and shows the notification icon, on available updates. So you don't need to make a change. However if you want, the application responsible for updates and notification in Plasma is "Discover". You can run and configure it from the start menu.

EDIT: @Dai_trying

Last edited by q4osteam (2019-02-09 16:53)

Dai_trying · 2019-02-09 17:04

@q4osteam

debiandonder · 2019-02-09 17:16

Pardon, I could not find "Discover" in the Plasma menu. When I typed it into the search part it took me to the software centre.

I just ran update check in the terminal and discovered "stable 1:7 .4p1-10+deb9u5 amd64"

What is that all about? Does it have something to do with Debian base?

Anyway, the update notification still didn't show me anything.

debiandonder · 2019-02-09 18:03

Entschuldigung! The update notification started working after I ran the sudo update command. That's fixed, sehr gut!

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