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From: Jesse Sheidlower on 1 Jul 2008 11:10

On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to
be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange
box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can
be updated, and it handles the updating.

On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have
something under System > Administration > Software Sources
that lets me choose how often it should check for updates, but
these don't actually seem to be displayed anywhere. So I have
to use the Synaptic Package Manager manually.

Am I missing something, or is there a way to get the older
functionality back?

Jesse Sheidlower


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From: michael on 1 Jul 2008 11:20
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to
> be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange
> box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can
> be updated, and it handles the updating.
>
> On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have
> something under System > Administration > Software Sources
> that lets me choose how often it should check for updates, but
> these don't actually seem to be displayed anywhere. So I have
> to use the Synaptic Package Manager manually.
>
> Am I missing something, or is there a way to get the older
> functionality back?

The orange box only appears if there's stuff to update, so if you've
just installed the latest Lenny and the latest apps....


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From: Jesse Sheidlower on 1 Jul 2008 11:20
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to
> > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange
> > box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can
> > be updated, and it handles the updating.
> >
> > On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have
> > something under System > Administration > Software Sources
> > that lets me choose how often it should check for updates, but
> > these don't actually seem to be displayed anywhere. So I have
> > to use the Synaptic Package Manager manually.
> >
> > Am I missing something, or is there a way to get the older
> > functionality back?
>
> The orange box only appears if there's stuff to update, so if you've
> just installed the latest Lenny and the latest apps....

Yeah, but every day I have minor things to update on the other
machine, but nothing on this one. And if I go to Synaptic, as
I did a few minutes ago, I learn that I have 122M worth of
updates to get through....

So clearly I think there's something I need to be told, but
someone is not telling me :-)

Jesse Sheidlower


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From: michael on 1 Jul 2008 11:20
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:12 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to
> > > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange
> > > box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can
> > > be updated, and it handles the updating.
> > >
> > > On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have
> > > something under System > Administration > Software Sources
> > > that lets me choose how often it should check for updates, but
> > > these don't actually seem to be displayed anywhere. So I have
> > > to use the Synaptic Package Manager manually.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something, or is there a way to get the older
> > > functionality back?
> >
> > The orange box only appears if there's stuff to update, so if you've
> > just installed the latest Lenny and the latest apps....
>
> Yeah, but every day I have minor things to update on the other
> machine, but nothing on this one. And if I go to Synaptic, as
> I did a few minutes ago, I learn that I have 122M worth of
> updates to get through....
>
> So clearly I think there's something I need to be told, but
> someone is not telling me :-)

Okay, I'll have a closer look when I'm next sitting at a Debian Gnome
console (and not this Fedora box which uses 'pup' to display list of new
updates...)


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From: David Staer on 1 Jul 2008 11:40
Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to
> be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange
> box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can
> be updated, and it handles the updating.
>
> On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have
> something under System > Administration > Software Sources
> that lets me choose how often it should check for updates, but
> these don't actually seem to be displayed anywhere. So I have
> to use the Synaptic Package Manager manually.
>
> Am I missing something, or is there a way to get the older
> functionality back?
>
> Jesse Sheidlower

Have a look under System>Preferences>Sessions, that's where all
autostarted applications for gnome go. Maybe the update manager
isn't in that list.


Regards
David Staer


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