The tool presented here, “Simple Apt Update” (simple-apt-update) is nothing more than a front-end to the non-interactive execution of apt-get update|full-upgrade and apt list –upgradeable. It can look like this:

In my previous article Print XDG Desktop Definition for Application i described a way to search the various “applications” sub-directories of the known XDG data directories for .desktop-files that match certain search criteria. The short shell script from that article is now available as a commandline utility, including the usual bells and whistles such as […]