sun 1.4.0

Tray notification applet for informing about package updates in Slackware

Table of Contents:

• About

• How works

• Installing

• Requires

• Usage

• GTK Icon

• CLI

• Daemon autostart

• Configuration files

• Donate

• Copyright

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

SUN reads the two dates of ChangeLog.txt files on the server and local by counting how many packages have been upgraded, rebuilt or added.

SUN works with slackpkg

Installing

Required root privileges

$ tar xvf sun-1.4.0.tar.gz
$ cd sun-1.4.0
$ ./install.sh

Installed as Slackware package

Requires

python-toml >= 0.10.2

Usage

Choose ONE http mirror from ‘/etc/slackpkg/mirrors’ file.

NOTE: ftp mirrors not supported.

GTK Icon

CLI

$ sun help
SUN (Slackware Update Notifier) - Version: 1.4.0

Usage: sun [OPTIONS]

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.

Start GTK icon from the terminal: sun start --gtk


$ sun start
Starting SUN daemon:  /usr/bin/sun_daemon &


$ 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.


$ sun stop
Stopping SUN daemon:  /usr/bin/sun_daemon


$ sun status
SUN is not running

Daemon autostart

If you want SUN to start automatically, run $ /usr/sbin/sun_daemon-enable.sh and /usr/sbin/sun_daemon-disable.sh to disable respectively.

Configuration files

/etc/sun/sun.toml
    General configuration of sun

Donate

If you feel satisfied with this project and want to thanks me make a donation.

Copyright

• Copyright 2015-2022 © Dimitris Zlatanidis

• Slackware® is a Registered Trademark of Patrick Volkerding.

• Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds.