On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:28 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of > > of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it > > first is opened. I do not 'see' this happening now. It may be doing it > > but I don't know for sure, since it only pops up the download window > > when I key it to update manually. Any suggestions? > > frosty > > It might be my broken English, a cup of cheap wine too much, I dunno, > but I don't understand what you want. > > "update manually" is for pushing the "Reload"-button? Yep > "all the packages I have in the sources.list" is for what? All packages > provided by your repositories? again yep > All packages you've got installed? No > "display the process of the download"? i.e the popup that shows the actual execution of the download of each repository. when I hit the reload button > Synaptic does display all > processes, as soon as you give your okay to upgrade. correct > If you just update > repository information, no package will be downloaded, neither a process > like "ldconfig" would be launched. not relevant to my question
I will refine the question; Is there any way to have synaptic do the package update automatically when I execute the application. i.e run 'apt-get update'; I do not currently see that happening. I must hit the reload button each time I open synaptic. That option does not appear in preferences. Thanks! frosty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1340639318.32334.13.ca...@beast.home
