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).
Hi,
You need root to do 'apt-get update', but after that
'apt-get -s upgrade' doesn't need root, and gives you the
information you want.
> Thanks a lot in advance!
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