Man page 1 : update-notifier

update-notifier - daemon which notifies about package updates.

update-notifier [OPTIONS...]

update-notifier puts an icon in the user's notification area when package updates are available.

R -h

    Shows help options.

R --debug-hooks\fR

    Enable hooks debugging.

R --debug-updates\fR

    Enable updates/autolaunch debugging.

R --debug-inotify\fR

    Enable inotify debugging.

R --debug-firmware\fR

    Enable firmware debugging.

R --force\fR

    Force start even if the user is not in the admin group.

R --force-use-gksu\fR

    Force running all commands (update-manager, synaptic) with gksu.

R --startup-delay\fR

    Delay startup by given amount of seconds.

R --display =DISPLAY
    X display to use.

In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply. See the output of --help for details.

update-manager(8), synaptic(8)

This manual page was written by Vincent Cheng <>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).