Tray notification applet for informing about package updates in Slackware
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About
Let’s SUN!
SUN (Slackware Update Notifier) is a tray notification applet for informing about package updates in Slackware and CLI tool for monitoring upgraded packages.
How works
Actually read the two dates of ChangeLog.txt files one the server and a local by counting how many packages have been upgraded, rebuilt or added.
Installing
Required root privileges
$ tar xvf sun-1.3.5.tar.gz
$ cd sun-1.3.5
$ ./install.sh
Installed as Slackware package
Usage
Choose ONE http mirror from ‘/etc/slackpkg/mirrors’ file.
NOTE: ftp mirrors not supported.
CLI
$ sun help SUN (Slackware Update Notifier) - Version: 1.3.5 Usage: sun [OPTION] Optional arguments: help display this help and exit start start sun daemon stop stop sun daemon restart restart sun daemon check check for software updates status sun daemon status info os information $ sun start Starting SUN daemon: /usr/bin/sun_daemon & $ sun stop Stopping SUN daemon: /usr/bin/sun_daemon $ sun status SUN is not running $ sun check 3 software updates are available samba-4.1.17-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. mozilla-firefox-31.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. mozilla-thunderbird-31.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded.
Configuration files
/etc/sun/sun.conf General configuration of sun
Copyright
- Copyright 2015-2022 © Dimitris Zlatanidis
- Slackware® is a Registered Trademark of Patrick Volkerding.
- Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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