Display the Number of Upgradable Packages in Ubuntu (apt)

2021-01-10 07:50 (5 years ago)
Display the Number of Upgradable Packages in Ubuntu (apt)

When you SSH login to Ubuntu, you may see the following message:

10 packages can be updated.
5 updates are security updates.

This display.

The mechanism that displays this message uses motd (message of the day).

To get this message via a command, use:

/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --human-readable

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