Terminal Update Widget

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applet-terminalupdate

Score 57%

Description:

Requires plasma-discover to be installed. Uses apt commands to update (KDE Neon / Kubuntu).

Clicking the "Update" button will instead open Konsole with the output of apt list --upgradeable, prompting you to run sudo apt full-upgrade.

1. After installing, right click the "triangle" in the system tray, then click "System Tray Settings".
2. Uncheck "Updates"
3. Check "Updates (Terminal)"

The widget also links to the Ubuntu (https://usn.ubuntu.com/releases/ubuntu-16.04-lts/) and KDE Security Notices (https://www.kde.org/info/security/) if you're interested in seeing what triggered a security update.

Last changelog:

v3 - March 13 2018 8 months ago

* Fix position of update status text (should of been above the button).
* Show button to open /var/log/apt/history.log
* Use the Oxygen-*.ogg instead of KDE-*.ogg sounds. With KDE Neon, plasma-desktop depends on oxygen-sounds, but doesn't depend on kde-runtime-data which ships the KDE-*.ogg sounds.
* Fix Ubuntu 16.04 Security Notices link as the old link 404s.

azarilh
6 months ago

That's just what i wanted. Thank you.

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alex-l
8 months ago

"notify-send command not found" ?

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Zren
8 months ago

The script will prompt you to install libnotify-bin if it's not already installed. KDE Neon does not ship with it, but Kubuntu does.
The notify-send command is used to send a notification when updates have finished installing.

The scripts are in:
~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/com.github.zren.terminalupdate/contents/scripts/

If you want to modify them.

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Yarkus
1 year ago

Two small issues:
1) Right after installation on my KDE neon there was no "Updates (Terminal)" in System Tray Settings, thought i could add to panel as separate widget. After logout and login though "Updates (Terminal)" appeared and one can follow 3-steps instruction above.
2) After update process i occurred an error message. There was unknown command in script: "notify-send". You need to manually install "libnotify-bin" package and everything works fine.

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Yarkus
1 year ago

Very convenient and minimalistic. I like it this way. Good job!

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v3 - March 13 2018 8 months ago

v2 - January 22 2017 10 months ago

* Use `apt full-upgrade` instead of `apt upgrade`
* Use a different sound effect when there's packages to autoremove.
* Check for notify-send first and help the user install it. Kubuntu comes preinstalled with this, but KDE Neon doesn't.

v1 - September 22 2017 10 months ago

* First public release
* If no updates known, run a script in Konsole that calls `sudo apt update`, then run the upgrade script.
* If there are known updates, run a script in Konsole that calls `sudo apt upgrade`.
* Plays sounds effects and notifications on error/completion.
* Requires `libnotify-bin` (aka `notify send`) to show notications.