Re: Synaptic preferences question
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:59:35 -0500, 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
>>
>> I can be wrong but I thought the "reload" takes place automatically
>> when Synaptic is open :-?
>>
>
> Exactly my reason for this question. I believe that should occur.
> However I do not "see' that activity, there is no popup screen & I seem
> to be required to do it manually.
When you first launch Synaptic, there's no pop-up screen nor more
information for the "reload" but there still should be run, and that's
why it takes a bit of time to get Synaptic available and ready to work.
> This is not any kind of rant. I just want to know what my system is
> doing, by having the visual que that the popup screen provides. I
> 'believe' that this 'reload' is not occuring because of the time
> required for the screen to open to the synaptic menue. Its damn quick
> to open to the menu (about 2 seconds)& when I manually hit the reload
> button it takes a few seconds (about 5 seconds)for it to finish but it
> shows the activity in the popup.
I don't use Synaptic ever day (I prefer "apt-get update") but true is
that I don't recall seeing the reload status screen unless I manually
trigger the "Reload" button. Never thought this was not normal.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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