On 03/02/2013 09:30 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 02.03.2013 15:27, schrieb Aaron Konstam:
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 08:57 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
The Check Updates option in the Software application does not work for
me. It starts as expected reporting the number of updates. But it never
reaches the install step and just keeps running without end.
Does this work for other people? If so what is your trick to get it to
work?
What I wanted to know if this works for others. I have not gotten any
response giving that information
which indicates that the majority of all users avoid the
grapical stuff and use always yum for good reasons
Not completely accurate. Check Updates in Apper works all the time for
me. Sometimes Apper will hang, or delay-and-delay, /after/ the update is
done.
None of those GUI extenders issues commands like "yum clean metadata."
So when I want to run an update on my own schedule, I issue that command
first.
The best part of a GUI: when you want to know what packages are
available, you don't lose the first listing just because it has scrolled
above your command-line prompt (xterm, Konsole, etc.) window. Instead
you always know what's available, and can give orders for installation
with a few clicks. Occasionally I use "yumex" for that view.
There has never been any "trick" to "making Check Updates work" in
Apper. It has worked, straight-out-of-the-box, since KDE pushed it
through to replace KPackageKit. I abandoned another third-party GUI,
called "smart," once Apper became available and I saw how versatile it
could be.
I respectfully suggest that neither Fedora nor any other distribution is
ever going to gain any traction with greater numbers of users, should
the community ever decide to abandon the GUI completely and use
command-line applications (manually initiated, at that) for routine
system maintenance.
Temlakos
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