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
SUN compares the two dates of ChangeLog.txt files on the server and locally by counting how many packages have been upgraded, rebuilt or added etc.
SUN works with slackpkg as well as with others tools and repositories. Probably, you can use the SUN with other’s Slackware based Linux distributions as well.
Installing
Required root privileges
$ tar xvf sun-1.4.5.tar.gz
$ cd sun-1.4.5
$ ./install.sh
Installed as Slackware package
Usage
GTK Icon
CLI
$ sun help
SUN (Slackware Update Notifier) - Version: 1.4.5
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 from 1 repository
Slackware: samba-4.1.17-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware: mozilla-firefox-31.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware: mozilla-thunderbird-31.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
$ sun stop
Stopping SUN daemon: /usr/bin/sun_daemon
$ sun status
SUN is not running
Daemon autostart
If you want sun daemon to autostart automatically in every boot, run as root:
$ sun_daemon enable
or for disable the autostart sun daemon:
$ sun_daemon disable
for help
$ sun_daemon help
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 2015-2023 © Dimitris Zlatanidis
Slackware® is a Registered Trademark of Patrick Volkerding.
Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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