On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:46:02 -0500
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
Hello David,
>While I would generally concur, I would not advise, for example,
>performing the monthly firefox upgrade while the browser is running.
I've never had issues doing that (admittedly, not with ff, but other
browsers); The browser I use (Librewolf) reports it's noticed the
update and requires a restart.
>Not being a synaptic user, I don't know whether it informs users of
>what it is doing (other than through the logs), but I would have
>thought it ought to.
It does. To see the reporting, one has to either click a button on the
progress bar window for further information or set in the prefs "Apply
changes in terminal window", which is what I do. That way, you can see
what's happening immediately because as soon as the download completes a
terminal window opens and reports everything that's happening;
unpacking, writing to disk, updating default prefs, removing, updating
initrd, updating manpage db, etc, etc.
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