On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 13:36 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: > On 06/25/2012 10:59 AM, John W. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -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 > > > > If you run Update Manager, it will check for updates every day, 2 > days, week or 2 weeks, depending on what you set in Preferences. When > it checks it updates the same files that Synaptic uses for Reload. It > will pop up an icon in your notification area to let you know about > any updates available and you can click on it to see them and install > them. I use both Update Manager and Synaptic. They can't both be run > at the same time, but Update Manager can be active and idle in the > notification area and you can use Synaptic. > > EP
Good point! Update manager for my taste is a PITA and for the first time it's not easy to get rid of it, assumed your distro starts it by default, as one of the distros I use does. -- 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/1340649933.1349.183.camel@localhost.localdomain
