Tray notification applet for informing about package updates in Slackware
Project description
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. SUN works with slackpkg as well with slpkg
Installing
Required root privileges
$ tar xvf sun-1.3.3.tar.gz
$ cd sun-1.3.3
$ ./install.sh
Installed as Slackware package
Usage
Choose ONE mirror from ‘/etc/slackpkg/mirrors’ file.
CLI
$ sun help
SUN (Slackware Update Notifier) - Version: 1.3.3
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
Donate
If you feel satisfied with this project and want to thanks me make a donation.
Copyright
Copyright 2015-2020 © Dimitris Zlatanidis
Slackware® is a Registered Trademark of Patrick Volkerding.
Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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