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...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
