On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 02:15:17AM +0200, emninger@??? wrote:
> May someone of you knows if their exists in the .deb world a tool which
> checks for available updates and which does not need root.
>
> What i am looking for, is just a simple "update available" notifier
> (with other package managers that's possible, but i do not see a way to
> do that with apt or aptitude).
>
The easiest way is to have a cron script that runs once a day, with
root provileges, and calls "apt-get update". Then, your notifier could
be as simple as:
apt-get -s upgrade | grep "^[0-9]* upgr" | cut -d " " -f 1
which will give the number of packages that would be upgraded, and
does not require root. But remember: the check should be performed
only once every "apt-get update", because the result does not change
if you don't update the list of available packages.
HND
KatolaZ
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