<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Collins</b> <<a href="mailto:dcolli22@csc.com.au">dcolli22@csc.com.au</a>> wrote:</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?)</blockquote><div><br>If I recall correctly, the Gnome dependencies of update-notifier were negligible (
e.g. because they already come default or something). That's why the Xfce update-notifier wasn't packaged. <br><br>The update-notifier ought to have been installed by default, but because it was marked as "recommends" instead of "depends" or something this didn't happen, but that should be fixed for Gutsy.
<br><br>If I'm wrong, please correct me.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Regards,<br>David Collins<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent