Apt Update Indicator is an app to get Ubuntu update notifications. The Apt Update Indicator uses pkcon refresh by default and apt upgrade -y by default to upgrade the system. It has an optional update count display feature. It is a forked from Arch-Update application – an update indicator for ArchLinux and Gnome-Shell.
It shows also the following package status (as in Synaptic):
- Available updates
- New packages in repository
- Local/Obsolete packages
- Residual config files
- Autoremovable packages
Install Apt Update Indicator
To install, simply download and execute make install command. Users can download it from https://github.com/franglais125/apt-update-indicator
If you want to install it via command line, run the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ git clone https://github.com/franglais125/apt-update-indicator.git
$ cd apt-update-indicator/
$ make install