apt-watch software package provides Applet that monitors apt sources for upgrades (transitional package), you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install apt-watch
apt-watch is installed in your system.
Make ensure the apt-watch package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep apt-watch *
You will get with apt-watch package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | apt-watch |
| Version | 0.4.0-2.1ubuntu1 |
| Description | Applet that monitors apt sources for upgrades (transitional package) |
| Sub Section | Admin |