Activating the update notifier

[Steven M. Parrish]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 08:46:05 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Monday 09 February 2009 19:48:41 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> >> On Monday 09 February 2009 21:38:43 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> > What does he need to activate the notifier applet?
> >>
> >> You can configure notification of updates inn System Settings -> Add
> >> Remove Programs -> Settings including notification of updates.
> >
> > Thanks, Eli.  I'll pass that on
>
> Related question: this is usually what happens (on multiple computers):
> - kpackagekit icon appears and tells me it's checking for updates
> - Notification pops up and I click on "update"
> - While the update is happening -- actually, quite early on --
> *another* notification comes up and tells me again about the updates
> I'm already doing
>
> I've been attributing this -- on no evidence other than "gut feeling"
> -- to something like this: maybe kpackagekit does another refresh of
> the available packages after I start the update, which in turn
> triggers the second notification window. I've never been sufficiently
> interested to track it down, though. Does this happen to anyone else?
>
> MEF

I have this happening for me as well.  This has been fixed in SVN however we 
have to wait for a PackageKit upgrade before this can be pushed to F9/F10

Steven