2008/5/24 Tim Green timothy.j.green@gmail.com:
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM, James Freer jessejazza@googlemail.com wrote:
All updates i follow the recommended System~>Administration~>Update manager The update database for apt-get, synaptic and aptitude are separate. Update with just apt-get update only does that database - the irritating update icon is from Update Manager (and continues to display until update manager is used, although could be disabled). Kubuntu has had quite a few problems i seem to recall with Adept. If i was using kubuntu i'd install synaptic (a different world to suse's Yast).
Weird - one my Gnome Ubuntu system for at least the last 18 months the Update Manager icon stayed in sync with manual usage of "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade". While apt-get is running, the icon turns grey, and when the upgrade is complete, it goes away.
Tim.
I checked with an update this morning - using ubuntu 7.10 [still waiting for my shipit 8.04! but doesn't matter as they still seem to be quite busy sorting out bugs!]. "apt-get update" seems to update apt-get, the update icon went grey and remained grey while i did some other work, i rebooted and the orange icon returns with the same new package to be updated.
It seems update manager needs to run with all package managers exited. There may be a preferences somewhere that we have set differently. This was the same on 7.04 and 6.10 that i tried.
james