[Ubuntu Chicago] 3rd party software auditing and updating tools?

[Jim Campbell]

Hi there,

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:42 AM, W. Scott Lockwood III
<scott at guppylog.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:03 -0600, Devon Private wrote:
> > I don't understand this, but Windows has Windows Update.
>
> Ah, but Windows Update (or WSUS, which is the server that hooks into
> that) only works for Windows software. You can't update say, Mozilla
> Thunderbird, or Adobe Acrobat reader. Nor does that work on MAC's at all
> for example.
>
> Ubuntu and other Debian based systems have apt, which allows you to
> define repositories that have software that has been through, for
> example, the Debian security team - so, they have a way to deal with
> this... MAC's and Windows boxen, not so much. :(
>
> I suspect that I'm going to end up having to setup Xabbix or Nagios
> checks that LOOK for these things and alert me to them, a very painful
> and manual process. D:
>
> I'm wondering what they do where the people on this list work to deal
> with this problem?
>
> --
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>
> W. Scott Lockwood III
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I'm not sure if this would meet your needs, but you might want to check out
udeployer. http://udeployer.com/

It's being developed by a guy in the Chicago Linux User Group.

Jim
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