On 8/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Collins</b> <<a href="mailto:dcolli22@csc.com.au">dcolli22@csc.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For general information ..<br><br>In a fresh install of Feisty Xubuntu, I chose in Software Sources -<br>Updates/Check for Updates. After a time, I realized that this wasn't<br>happening. I found that update-notifier was not installed - installing
<br>this fixed the problem without me doing anything else - working nicely now.<br><br>The small downside is that when you install update-notifier, you download<br>quite a few gnome components in the process. Maybe that is why it is not
<br>installed as part of the Xubuntu OS install ?<br><br>Does anyone know the history of this ?<br>(I guess it would be nice to have an xfce4-based update-notifier?)<br><br>Regards,<br>David Collins</blockquote><div><br>The Gnome dependencies could be the cause of this. I know many people using Xfce try to avoid Gnome dependencies like the plague, as do I.
<br><br>Frankly, I hate update notifications. I prefer manually refreshing Synaptic and checking to see what packages have updates available, if any. It's just personal preference, though.<br><br>Hexzenn<br></div></div>
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