apt-get command line upgrade, to know when to restart

[Wise Melon]

When you run the application Software Updater and I install some updates which need a restart of your computer, it tells you that you need to restart your computer. But when running this command in Terminal: sudo apt-get upgrade

It is not clear whether or not the packages which you have upgraded require a restart of the computer once they have finished upgrading.

So what would be really useful instead of having to go and look in your /var/run/ folder to check if /var/run/reboot-required exists, it would be really good if on completion of the command for it to somehow just tell you if a restart is required. Even if it just says either:

RESTART REQUIRED = TRUE

or

RESTART REQUIRED = FALSE

Depending on whether or not a restart is needed. Or as it used to do for it to tell you here: Restart_to_complete_updates.bmp

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System information:

Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10

Package version information:

apt:
  Installed: 1.0.9.2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.0.9.2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.9.2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

You should get the same popup when running apt as you do with update-manager or any other package management tool for that matter.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Well, if you are doing this in the command-line, then generally it would be seen as strange if something GUI wise popped up. And especially so would it be useless if you were in the console with no GUI or you were using apt as a dependency of another program. Then this popup might become quite a nuisance.