Update Checker

[Jerry]

New update now available.

[n1ksn]

I think you could leave the minutes and hours boxes as-is (although they could be horizontally smaller) but just put "Minutes" and "Hours" in front of them (to their left).  Then put a text line above the two saying "Time between checks" (or your favorite wording). 

Or maybe better, under the description line put the two boxes on the same line, (smaller, of course), with the simple hour and minute labels beneath or above them and a big "+" sign or ":" colon between them. 

Andy

[shaggytwodope]

I don't know if this will be an issue with new users, but I suspect it might. If you have held packages they still show up as available updates this is also true with the control center, and will likely have new users confused as to why they can't install their updates, just my opinion.  On a side note it might be useful to be able to set a specific time for checking for updates like once a day at 7:00 am. This will work better for people with limited bandwidth at certain hours. Again just my opinion, everything seems to work fine have not noticed any issues.  Good work.

I'll look into specific timed events, this may be a fair bit of work before it's added. No promises ofc.

[shaggytwodope]

I tried the lite-updater in LL 2.8 on my 64-bit Dell Latitude E6410.  It correctly notified me of 67 available updates and did the updating.

However, after the update the checkmark icon was still visible (maybe lighter?) and the tooltip showed that the same 67 updates were available.  I quit the program and re-ran from the menu.  The tooltip then correctly showed no updates available.

Also, I opened the configuration menu for it and found it a bit confusing.  There were two enties for update checking interval, one minutes and one for hours.  Do these add together?  It was not clear.   

Hope this helps.

Andy N1KSN

Added a bit later:

I installed the updater in my 32-bit Gateway LT40 notebook.  When I first ran it the behaviour was the same as above, with the tooltip and icon still indicating updates available after an update.   

However, on the second run (after a reboot) it now showed 7 updates available.  When I ran it this time the update process completed and said there had actually been no updates available, not seven.  And the tooltip and icon still said 7 updates available.

Andy

There was  bug in updating the count, this as been fixed.

The config option is added up, I'll see if I can make it any clearer. If you have any ideas as to improve this please let me know.

[shaggytwodope]

Just for FYI... Checked tonight ..
Updater showed 22 only 2 updates thou...

This has been fixed, once I contact Jerry a update will be made.

[Wirezfree]

Open Synaptic Package Manager.
Look at the left, see if you have anything in "Installed(upgradable) .??,,
I think they are included in the count also.

[firenice03]

Just for FYI... Checked tonight ..
Updater showed 22 only 2 updates thou...

[firenice03]

Kudos Shaggy!!!!

Installed the updater - informed of 29 updates..
Very nice

[n1ksn]

I tried the lite-updater in LL 2.8 on my 64-bit Dell Latitude E6410.  It correctly notified me of 67 available updates and did the updating.

However, after the update the checkmark icon was still visible (maybe lighter?) and the tooltip showed that the same 67 updates were available.  I quit the program and re-ran from the menu.  The tooltip then correctly showed no updates available.

Also, I opened the configuration menu for it and found it a bit confusing.  There were two enties for update checking interval, one minutes and one for hours.  Do these add together?  It was not clear.   

Hope this helps.

Andy N1KSN

Added a bit later:

I installed the updater in my 32-bit Gateway LT40 notebook.  When I first ran it the behaviour was the same as above, with the tooltip and icon still indicating updates available after an update.   

However, on the second run (after a reboot) it now showed 7 updates available.  When I ran it this time the update process completed and said there had actually been no updates available, not seven.  And the tooltip and icon still said 7 updates available.

Andy

[avj]

I don't know if this will be an issue with new users, but I suspect it might. If you have held packages they still show up as available updates this is also true with the control center, and will likely have new users confused as to why they can't install their updates, just my opinion.  On a side note it might be useful to be able to set a specific time for checking for updates like once a day at 7:00 am. This will work better for people with limited bandwidth at certain hours. Again just my opinion, everything seems to work fine have not noticed any issues.  Good work.

[LL-user]

Thanks, Shaggy, for all the effort!

Can't start it, I'm ending up with this:

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$ lite-updater
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lite-updater", line 15, in <module>
    import apt
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
    apt_pkg.init_config()
SystemError: E:Opening configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local - ifstream::ifstream (13: Permission denied)

Have opened issue on GitHub.

[Jerry]

The first Beta release of Lite Updater is now available. Thanks to the tireless work of shaggytwodope, we now have a native Linux Lite Updates application that sits in your tray. This is something that will be bundled into Linux Lite 3.0

This is test ready. We'd love for as many people to get involved in this as possible.

Code: [Select]

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install lite-updater
Menu > Settings > Lite Updater





Please feedback into this thread with anything you find or suggest. You can also make suggestions for features and report bugs directly here - https://github.com/linuxlite/lite-updater/issues which for developers is much easier to track.

Thank you, we're looking forward to hearing from you all!

[shaggytwodope]

New video showing off ram use, while its not perfect. coming in around 60-70MB at idle is acceptable imo.

[shaggytwodope]

I can't see how a list of package names fits into updater at this time. It's job is only to notify, does not handle updates. If the scope changes I'll gladly introduce something like this. But I'm not sure how it fits with the goal atm.

[avj]

The only problem I see with using the "apt list --upgradable" is that it will also show packages that are held and might cause some confusion with new users.