apt-notifier in ICEWM tray

[Belham]

Hi all,

Have a question about the "apt-notifier" in the ICEWM tray.

I saw it was released (as standard when installing for full version of AntiX), so I thought I could install in my latest & fully updated 'base' AntiX.

I used Synaptic, searched for 'apt-notifier', and let Synaptic install.

Everything seemed to go smoothy on the install.

I then rebooted.

After the re-boot, the apt-notifier icon popped up in the ICEWM tray say there were updates.

So, first, I left-clicked on the icon, and nothing happened.

After waiting a minute or two, with nothing happening, I then 'right-clicked' on the apt-notifier tray icon, and finally a menu came up for options. HERE's the problem: no matter what is clicked in that Menu popup, apt-notifier does nothing----one can't open Synaptic, can't check for updates, can't make any of the choices that popup menu offers because clicking on anything does nothing.

I figure this isn't the way it was planned for the 'apt-notifier' to work, or was it?


What baffles me is that I used Synaptic specifically to make sure it would handle any dependencies on the install.

Any ideas where I go from here, to get this to work like it does so well in my other MX-Linux installs?? Otherwise, my 'base' Antix install updated to the latest 19.2 runs gangbusters with no problems.

Much thanks.

[anticapitalista]

Did you follow the steps here: https://antixlinux.com/package-updates-notifier/

[Belham]

Did you follow the steps here: https://antixlinux.com/package-updates-notifier/

Hi Anticapitalista,

Welllllll, of course I didn't....

I'm from Puppy-verse, you know, we just dive-in thinking we know what we're doing, wreck havoc, and then wonder why the water is soon at waist-level & rising fast



P.S. In my defense, I did the other day leave another "why do I even bother with other Linux distros" review of AntiX/MX in the "Other Distro' section.