Re: Synaptic preferences question
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.
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