update-notifier(1)

daemon which notifies about package updates.

NAME

update-notifier - daemon which notifies about package updates.

SYNOPSIS

update-notifier [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

update-notifier puts an icon in the user's notification area when package updates are available.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Shows help options.

--debug-hooks: Enable hooks debugging.

--debug-updates: Enable updates/autolaunch debugging.

--debug-inotify: Enable inotify debugging.

--debug-firmware: Enable firmware debugging.

--force: Force start even if the user is not in the admin group.

--force-use-gksu: Force running all commands (update-manager, synaptic) with gksu.

--startup-delay: Delay startup by given amount of seconds.

--display=DISPLAY: X display to use.

In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply. See the output of --help for details.

SEE ALSO

update-manager(8), synaptic(8)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

History

Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze): the text shown here
Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

--debug-firmware since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --debug-inotify since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --debug-updates since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --force since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --force-use-gksu since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --help since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --startup-delay since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -h since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).