Comments on: A change the way Ubuntu 9.04 notifies you of updates

By: Alan Barnard

Alan Barnard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:10:24 +0000

Ah! now I see the problem. I typed two separate hyphens and this site changed it into one long dash. Try typing ‘hyphen hyphen’ before ‘type’.

By: cJ

cJ — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:53:47 +0000

@Alan Barnard I had the same problem on another post.. For some reason the double dash was being turned into a single dash by WP. I have changed them to the ascii code, and now it should appear correct. Thanks!

By: Alan Barnard

Alan Barnard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:26:32 +0000

I think that the problem is the ‘-’ before ‘type’. Cutting and pasting the line causes the error. Try replacing the offending character (which appears as a long dash) with –.

By: Bruno Braga

Bruno Braga — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:19:28 +0000

Received the following error while trying to execute this command:

Must specify a type when setting a value

By: stlouisubntu

stlouisubntu — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:00:03 +0000

@ Klap-in:

I have always wanted more customization than the update manager has allowed. The only option in gnome have been advise of updates daily, weekly, or every two weeks. My preference is every 30 days (call me dangerous and crazy) so the only way for me to do that is to disable the update notifier completely and then check manually every 30 days. I assume that your advice would also apply to however many days any user might desire (also I am still running hardy heron.)

Thanks.

By: Klap-in

Klap-in — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:35:16 +0000

Next to above option, it is possible to change the ‘regular auto launch interval’. This in my humble opinion a more clear way.

- Start the configuration Editor (you can type ‘gconf-editor’ on your terminal)
- Look for /apps/update-notifier
- In this folder are listed 4 options (one is the above mentioned ‘auto_launch’).
- Another one of these is: regular_auto_launch_interval. Here you can define the interval in days when auto launching the update-manager for normal updates.

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Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:07:30 +0000

[...] A change to the Update Manager in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) makes it to where you are no longer notified about software updates in the system tray on a daily basis. In Ubuntu 8.10 you were notified on a daily basis of any software updates More here [...]