update-notifier(1) daemon which notifies about package updates.

SYNOPSIS

update-notifier [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

update-notifier puts an icon in the user's notification area when package updates are available.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Shows help options.
--debug-hooks
Enable hooks debugging.
--debug-updates
Enable updates/autolaunch debugging.
--debug-inotify
Enable inotify debugging.
--debug-firmware
Enable firmware debugging.
--force
Force start even if the user is not in the admin group.
--force-use-gksu
Force running all commands (update-manager, synaptic) with gksu.
--startup-delay
Delay startup by given amount of seconds.
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use.

In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply. See the output of --help for details.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).