On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:16:26 -0600 Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com> wrote: > > I think you can go into Synaptic Package Manager and install or > reinstall update-manager. That is the program that should put that up > there. Maybe it got uninstalled by accident? > Update manager is there - just not the notifier. I can try reinstalling.