Does your Update Manager alert you to updates?

[plucky]

Is there a bug in the 10.04 Update Manager? I have set my update manager to automatically notify me of updates daily, but I have never seen a pop-up alert in my task manager. For the last 3 months I have been checking almost daily for updates manually through the Add/Remove Software --> Software Updates GUI.

Anyone know why this doesn't work?

-Chris

From the Release Notes

Change in notifications of available updates

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS launches update-manager directly to handle package updates, instead of displaying a notification icon in the GNOME panel. Users are notified of security updates on a daily basis, but for updates that are not security-related, users will only be prompted once a week.

Users who wish to continue receiving update notifications in the previous manner can restore the earlier behavior using the following command:

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

(This change was made in Ubuntu 9.04.)

Good Luck

[inameiname]

Both methods I mentioned work just fine, it's just I tend to always be on the terminal, so I tend to go with updating through it instead of the update manager. I don't have any problems with update manager, and do use it when I am curious just what will be updated and perhaps what changes will occur with an upgrade, but like how the terminal shows all the packages that will be upgraded, including extras when something gets updated, and also the sizes of the updates. Also, with those extra commands I have on my terminal one I mentioned, it will automatically clean up whatever can be cleaned after an upgrade.

FYI, if you do ever decide to just use the terminal command, probably a good idea to remove all the '-y' pieces of code from my command until you are used to it, as what that does is automatically do all the commands without having you input the 'yes' or 'no' command. Easier, but if you are unsure of whether you should or shouldn't upgrade something, better to look at what is getting updated/removed/installed first.

Nonetheless, the update manager works just fine, and with those couple files to replace that I gave it should pop up for ya with new updates daily, as you desire.

[Cavsfan]

FYI, if you do ever decide to just use the terminal command, probably a good idea to remove all the '-y' pieces of code from my command until you are used to it, as what that does is automatically do all the commands without having you input the 'yes' or 'no' command. Easier, but if you are unsure of whether you should or shouldn't upgrade something, better to look at what is getting updated/removed/installed first.

I agree with this. You NEVER want to automatically give the "y" to continue an update!
You could end up messing things up and wasting a lot of time getting things back to working again. That is if you ever do.
I think the '-y' option is a very bad idea!

[murphycc]

Thanks, everyone, for the replies. They are very helpful. I will probably set up the alias to allow me to update through command line, but for time being might stick with manual updates through the Update Manager.

Regarding the gconftool ... suggestion. I did see that in my searches too, but since I'm using KDE I didn't think gconftool would change anything in my registry that would matter to KDE anyhow. Isn't gconftool only for Gnome?

I also tried installing the update-notifier and update-notifier-kde packages, but I think that has also been replaced in the current Lucid distro. A little confusing.

So again, thanks for the help. I will likely try the command line method (without automatically saying 'y' to all updates as Cavsfan suggests) in the future.

-Chris

[mörgæs]

I had a similar problem in Ubuntu 10.04 minimal, and the reason was a missing update-notifier:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1557339

I don't know with Kubuntu, though.