Notifications about new updates

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Timely system updates are very important for security. It is very convenient to have notifications about new updates on desktop/panel. This is perfectly implemented in mint, mx and other distros. Many users do not check updates - one of my friends installed Kicksecure and has not updated system for a long time. He thought that there were no new updates. Such tool in new versions of Kicksecure would add convenience and security to users.
Thank you

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I second this, something like this could be achieved through apt with a file called Kicksecure-Patcher or something which is a script that installs or removes programs according to the latest build version.

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this article recommends a self cli-update. do you think it is better than not to know about new updates and than to use notifications from third-party apps/scripts? but maybe kicksecure will cli-notify about new updates and recommend cli-update in terminal? I am against auto updates, but notifications about new updates are convenient and safe. I agree that user does not always remember about updating without notification. especially new users. I am not a newbie, but I rarely check for updates - I do not think about it

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I am using whonix. In whonix gateway and workstation, there is a “system check” application. I put a desktop shortcut for it and click it when I start the vm.

Maybe there is a way to run the system check application automatically on startup, but I am not a developer and not a linux expert, so I do not know.

I also do not know if there is an equivalent application on kicksecure.

One thing I wish that the system check application did do was to check outdated flatpaks as well as the debian repositories. Maybe in the future I will make a launcher that runs “upgrade nonroot” and “flatpak update” sequentially and put it on the desktop to click.

edit- It seems to not allow me to do this.

user@host:~$ flatpak update & upgrade-nonroot
[1] 15542
Looking for updates…
Hit:1 tor+https://deb.kicksecure.com bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 tor+https://fasttrack.debian.net/debian bookworm-fasttrack InRelease
Hit:4 tor+https://deb.whonix.org bookworm InRelease
Hit:5 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:6 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:7 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Hit:8 https://packages.element.io/debian default InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[1]+ Stopped flatpak update
user@host:~$

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systemcheck is available on Kicksecure.

Documented just now:
autostart systemcheck

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5 posts were split to a new topic: Systemcheck reports WARNING: Debian Package Update Check Result: apt-get reports that packages can be updated. but system is already fully upgraded

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An update notifier called updatecheck has been implemented in the systemcheck package. Available in 17.3.5.6 and above. Unreleased at time of writing. Will be included in the next stable release.

user documentation:

developer documentation:

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