Hi wamphyre!

Welcome and thanks for your work. I'm quite busy, but I hope to be able to try Virage soon.

I haven't tried this yet. Do you know "when" the update happens? Does it get logged somewhere in /var/log/?

Nevermind about the log question; I found the answer on this web page...

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

...but that brings up another question...does the unattended-upgrades package need to be installed for the 10periodic file to work?

I've been checking, and apparently the kernel has it built in to not allow scripts to run as root. There are ways around it but none that I'm comfortable with. So, I think I would prefer implementing the cron job again. I know that it works.

I think I've already tried switching the quotation marks around...I tried various things with it to see if I can get it to work last night, but I'll try that to make sure.

...maybe this is why pointlinux relied on synaptic alone? LOL!

Thanks fsr!

I installed mini-i2p-mimo on another computer so I could test again.

I got the pop up this time saying that I needed to install xterm or synaptic. My mistake earlier was that I only removed xterm...I didn't purge it.

So I installed xterm, but I'm still having the issue about sudo command not found. Even though I have sudo privileges, I looked at /etc/group and there I was in the sudo group.

Here's the output you requested...

dan@mini-mimo:~$ /usr/bin/upgrade-yes
+ '[' -e /usr/sbin/synaptic ']'
+ '[' -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/xterm.list ']'
++ wc -l
++ grep load
++ sudo -n uptime
+ sudo_allowed=1
+ [[ 1 -ne 0 ]]
+ xterm -fa mono -fs 12 -hold -e 'sudo "$command"'

I won't upgrade this system for awhile so I can keep testing on it.

Thanks so much stanz! That was the ticket and worked just like you said!

I think your work with mini-i2p-mimo is absolutely fantastic for people who want more security and anonymity while online. Thank you!

First try: my 32 bit beowulf with LXQt

I wanted to test it thoroughly, so I removed both xterm and synaptic before installing the notifier.

After removing them and installing the notifier, I replaced upgrade-yes and show-updates.

First run...

Clicking on Yes didn't produce another notification saying that I needed to install xterm or synaptic. I tried running upgrade-yes in the terminal, and received this output...

dan@deboowulf:~$ /usr/bin/upgrade-yes
/usr/bin/upgrade-yes: line 9: xterm: command not found

So, I went ahead and installed xterm.

Second run...

Clicking Yes opened xterm. However, when I entered my sudo password, it gave me this output...

Enter your password
[sudo] password for dan:
sudo: : command not found

...and I could do nothing else. I just had to close xterm.

I let it run again for a third time and tried entering the root password just in case, but it just said Sorry, try again. I entered a wrong password, and it said Sorry, try again. So I entered the sudo password, and got the same output as in the code above. So I just closed xterm.

So, I installed synaptic.

Fourth run...

Synaptic worked.

Now to try stanz's mini-i2p-mimo...

Got it!   I was trying to make it a lot harder than it had to be. 

Have this in my upgrade-yes file now...

pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic --dist-upgrade-mode true --non-interactive

Just like opening synaptic normally, you have to enter your password. Synaptic opens and shows the available updates. Click "Mark", and it immediately downloads and installs the updates. When it finished, Synaptic closed automatically for me...I think that depends on whether the user has previously marked Synaptic's "installation" window to close automatically.

I've only tested it on ASCII. I see no reason that it shouldn't work on beowulf, but I won't be able to try it until later this evening.

Would solve the issue with different terminals needing different coding, but synaptic would need to be added as a dependency to the .deb package.

The update-sync script definitely could be the culprit in Ron's case. It seems to only sync the repos at system start-up. It's supposed to do it at start up and periodically throughout the day.

So...if the updates came down sometime after start up, it didn't detect them.

I was trying to keep from running a cron job to sync the repos, but I might return to that if I have to...but we'll see.

Thanks for the report Ron.

I like both changes! So yes...let's include them!

Just used the new changes on beowulf. Had something like 91 updates!

Worked fantastic. I haven't updated my ASCII yet...will try it soon.

I guess another option would be to make a small note on the window where you choose Yes, Show Updates, or No that says the user will need to enter their root password.

Good deal. I didn't know about needing the notification-daemon on lxpanel. Thank you.

On the download site's readme file, I do have a note about window managers may need to add the commands for the update notifier to their autostart file, but I mainly had i3 in mind.

I'll add that about lxpanel to the readme file.

I guess your Openbox must be even more base than Miyo-Modern...the .desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart work on my Miyo (openbox) builds but not on i3.

Thanks fsr!

Hmmm...interesting. I feel silly asking you this.

Are you using the native notifications that lxpanel provides? If so, do you receive any other notifications?

I really feel silly asking you this, but is libnotify-bin installed?

I'll install lxpanel and see what happens. Might be a while though. I'm writing this from my phone.

I know that when I made Miyo-Xtra, I installed lxpanel with no-recommends, and the native lxpanel notifications weren't included.