The Muon improvement suggestions thread.

[schnelle]

Re: The Muon improvement suggestions thread.

I reinstalled my system from scratch (new hard drive in laptop), then I added qapt-experimental ppa and upgaded muon to newest beta.

I was amazed (in negative way) that muon still fails to install some deb packages. So I opened this bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290510

Please if you had problems with installing some deb files, please name them in that bug report.

Thanks.

[GreyGeek]

Re: The Muon improvement suggestions thread.

Problems both installing AND removing packages, even when the purge option is selected.

[wizard10000]

I'm afraid 32-bit muon came pretty close to trashing an upgrade to KDE 4.8 this morning. muon downloaded the upgrade fine then stalled at 55% during the install. I let it sit for half an hour then killed the muon and qapt processes and finished the upgrade with dpkg --configure -a

I'm really, really not bragging on my own mad skillz but I think someone with a little less experience with package managers would have ended up with a broken installation.

I don't know which version of muon it was because I don't know if it got upgraded during the upgrade to KDE 4.8 - the version I have now is v1.2.1 and I have kubuntu-ppa and kubuntu-ppa/backports enabled so maybe the developer can divine what version it was from the repos I have enabled.

[dequire]

This has happened to me with Muon as well. It seems there are situations where it hangs and can not resume a download if the Internet connection goes out briefly.

[wizard10000]

This has happened to me with Muon as well. It seems there are situations where it hangs and can not resume a download if the Internet connection goes out briefly.

Yup. This one hung during package installation, though - I think it might be a different issue.

[Linkmaster]

My biggest issue with muon package manager(i gave up with the software center) is that for any upgrades, it seems to choke on me, no matter how long i let it run for. I once let an update run for 2 days, and nothing happened. I had to do my usual 'kill process -> rm lock -> dpkg --configure -a -> apt-get dist-upgrade' like every other time. it even happened today when I put 4.8 on my computer. Its really nice, I can see all the packages, and i can put new things on...otherwise, its just a little program to tinker with now and then

[wizard10000]

It just happened to me as well at 55%, I killed it and when I continued via apt-get I was presented with the question if I wanted to keep or overwrite the non-default settings of kdrc.
So it looks like Muon is not able to pop up such a question and just waits indefinitely.

I saw that too - I *think* I've seen muon deal with dialogs before, maybe it just didn't deal with this one.

edit: My home laptop and desktop have auto-login enabled. My work PC doesn't and didn't pop up that dialog.

[bra|10n]

Muon 1.3.50 is in šumski's KDE Goodies PPA for Oneiric and Precise.

Not anymore.

I suggest 'backporting' (I hope that's the right terminology) newer versions of Muon in future so that at least users of the current version of Kubuntu may also benefit from its rapid development.

[sumski]

Not anymore.

I suggest 'backporting' (I hope that's the right terminology) newer versions of Muon in future so that at least users of the current version of Kubuntu may also benefit from its rapid development.

i moved amarok, muon and qapt here:
https://launchpad.net/~hrvojes/+arch...e-unstableapps

[sumski]

New qml updater:

[wizard10000]

So can we have some of the new stuff in kubuntu-ppa/backports? Please?

[sumski]

Short video of muon-installer-qml:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7WDdVSgiw8&

[Snowhog]

I like Muon, and am actually running a 'custom' compiled from git (?) version with the help of the developer. However, and not as a dis to Muon, I don't use it (nor did I use any other graphical package manager) to do the installing/removing/upgrading of packages on my system -- I use the CLI and apt-get, using the --simulate option before 'doing the deed'. I keep a log of all such package changes. I have never had a problem doing it this way.

[vw72]

An observation from 12.04:
I usually do the daily updates through the Konsole and apt-get and during the past week I had on two occasions a package held back from upgrading.
When I tried Muon it suggested to install or update a few dependencies and all became well.

So it looks to me that Muon has made some great strides to becoming a one-stop solution for package management.

Kudos to the developer!!!

I would agree with this. Muon has matured and become very stable. Now if they would only add it to the system settings dialog.

[Snowhog]

I would agree with this. Muon has matured and become very stable. Now if they would only add it to the system settings dialog.

?? Muon Software Center and Muon Package Manager appear under System by default.