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
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 09:02 +0100, James Freer wrote:
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.
The icon actually has 3 colours/styles on 8.04. Grey means the apt database is locked because a package manager is running somewhere (be that synaptic, apt-get or the update manager itself) Orange means that there are Suggested updates available, Red means there are critical updates.
If the icon was still present and orange after running apt-get update then that means there are packages which have suggested updates for your system. How can that be anything other than the desired behaviour ?
If you installed those packages with apt-get upgrade (or apt-get dist-upgrade if they are held back for some reason) then you would find that it went away because the suggested packages have been installed.
Anyway why are you waiting for snailmail to deliver an 8.04 disk to upgrade ? If you have a reasonable net connection just use the update manager to do the upgrade online.
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Wayne Stallwood