Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > > > > > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the p

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Emil Payne
On 06/25/2012 10:59 AM, John W. Foster wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, 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

Re: [OT] Verbose replies... (was: Synaptic preferences question)

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:39 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:27:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really > >> > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). > >

[OT] Verbose replies... (was: Synaptic preferences question)

2012-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:27:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really >> > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). >> >> A hint, no "little Myron's thumberland" (or the comic it'

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really > > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). > > A hint, no "little Myron's thumberland" (or the comic it's based on, slumberlan

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). A hint, no "little Myron's thumberland" (or the comic it's based on, Nemo, Nemo) and no "Alice"-dsl ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:56 +, Camaleón wrote: > However, I don't know if this still remains true for the current > Debian version of Synaptic. I don't know, at least current version for AVLinux (theoretically Debian stable) and my dropped "real" Debian stable and testing installs's Synaptic d

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:31:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:21 +, Camaleón wrote: >> there still should be run, and that's why it takes a bit of time to get >> Synaptic available and ready to work. > > No, you're mistaken. Synaptic DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPGRADE REPOSIT

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > there still should be run, and that's > why it takes a bit of time to get Synaptic available and ready to work. No, you're mistaken. Synaptic DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPGRADE REPOSITORY INFORMATION. If Synaptic should do by default, I would go mo

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:59:35 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, 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 ha

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 11:08 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I still do believe it would be a good idea to offer it in preferences. I don't need it, but I agree that such an option is good. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:48 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Is there any way to have synaptic do the package update automatically > when I execute the application. i.e run 'apt-get update'; AFAIK no. Since I used Suse package management GUIs, I prefer the .deb way not to upgrade the repository info

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > > I can be wrong but I thought the "reload" takes place automatically when > > Synaptic is open :-? > > No it doesn't and it's good that it doesn't. Thank you! This is the answer I need

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, 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 'se

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > I can be wrong but I thought the "reload" takes place automatically when > Synaptic is open :-? No it doesn't and it's good that it doesn't. When using a GUI to manage packages, one of the reasons to do this, is to get information, without havi

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
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 'se

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Camaleón
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 f

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
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