update notification - natty desktop

Lucio M Nicolosi lmnicolosi at gmail.com
Mon May 30 19:07:24 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am running ubuntu natty desktop 64bit with ubuntu classic. How do I
> get an update notification?
>
> I used to get update notification on older ubuntu.
>
> I see there are 4 packages that are waiting to be upgraded per `sudo
> aptitude full-upgrade'

Perhaps

Software Sources / Updates
or
Update Manager / Settings

need adjustment.

Or after:

sudo apt-get install aptitude

you can periodically:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

which is safer than full-upgrade.

-- 
Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux




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