Page 1 of 1
xfce Update Manager not auto-updating
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:15 pm
by slavik262
I have the Update Manager in an xfce panel set to auto-refresh (with the default time of every 15 minutes). On the specified interval, the icon changes to indicate that it's refreshing, but it doesn't detect new updates until I open it and manually refresh it. Is there some reason the auto-refresh functionality isn't working for me?
Re: xfce Update Manager not auto-updating
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:49 pm
by aes2011
slavik262 wrote:I have the Update Manager in an xfce panel set to auto-refresh (with the default time of every 15 minutes). On the specified interval, the icon changes to indicate that it's refreshing, but it doesn't detect new updates until I open it and manually refresh it. Is there some reason the auto-refresh functionality isn't working for me?
You could mention the Xfce version number: 4.8 or 4.10?
Re: xfce Update Manager not auto-updating
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 11:45 pm
by slavik262
4.8. I'm on using LMDE 201204.
Re: xfce Update Manager not auto-updating
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 4:28 am
by Inkit
I've noticed the same thing, and although I cannot explain why this happens, I find that if I change the refresh time to something other than default (I have it set to once every 6 hrs) I get notified immediately any new update comes in.
Re: xfce Update Manager not auto-updating
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:29 pm
by on4aa
Code: Select all
sudo apt-get install update-notifier-common anacron
resolves this issue in an elegant way on LMDE systems.
You can read more about it
here and
here