Gnome desktop notifications of new updates is not working on my system. I noticed that the notifications stopped working when I removed my desktop user from the sudo group (I prefer to have a separate user with sudo privileges). I found the following post in Debian bugs which suggests that it is necessary for the desktop user to be in the sudo group for the updates notifications to work:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613566 The update-notifier man page mentions the following commandline option:--forceForce start even if the user is not in the admin group.Should I consider adding the above option to update-notifier in the startup applications list? Doing ps aux | grep update shows that update-notifier is already running, so perhaps it is another process that is the source of the problem?Thanks in advance for any assistance.Debian Squeeze2.6.32-5-686update-notifier 0.99.3debian8
Gnome update-notifier doesn't show updates when user not in sudo group (Debian Squeeze)
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