Display the Number of Upgradable Packages in Ubuntu (apt)
2021-01-10 16:50 (4 years ago)
ytyng
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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