Updates notifier

[Todd And Margo Chester]

>> On 11/30/2011 05:45 AM, Raphael Groner wrote:
>>> Hi Todd,
>>>
>>>> Is there some replacement for the package updater?
>>>
>>> As fas as I know, puplet is the systray applet for pup. Pup had been the update / package manager before it got replaced by PackageKit.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, there's no known notification applet in PackageKit, at least not in my knowledge base.
>>>
>>> In case of Xfce, you could use a little script that uses xfce4-notify to show on-screen notification or the panel plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin that calls the script periodically.
>>>
>>> $ yum install xfce4-genmon-plugin
>>>
>>> See also http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin
>>
>>
>> #  yum install xfce4-genmon-plugin
>> Loaded plugins: priorities
>> 10 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>> Setting up Install Process
>> No package xfce4-genmon-plugin available.
>> Error: Nothing to do
>
> Took another trip to pbone.net.  The FC15 RPM works fine.  (Be nice
> to have an official EL6 rpm.)
>
> Question: I now have a panel item called "Generic Monitor".  I am
> not entirely certain how to use it.  Seems that both "pup" and
> "yumex" disappeared from EL6.
>
> -T
>

Okay.  I figured out how to use it.  I have it displaying my
Line Voltage from my UPS.

But, I am at a bit of a loss to figure out what commands to use
to get it to for me it I have yum updates pending.  Anyone
have a favorite way to do this in EL6?

-T