Alternative to Discover

[simonsaysthis]

Hi all,

I am hoping to fully transition to Kubuntu. Currently on a rolling distro but prefer a more stable base. My one gripe is the "Discover" software platform. If I do a manual update via CLI the update will still show on Discover. When I click on update in Discover it then freezes. Is there a way to completely get rid of Discover and what would be the recommended alternative?

[acheron]

muon or synaptic package managers

Muon was updated to version 5.7 for Zesty.

[simonsaysthis]

Great thank you. Will try Muon out

[jlittle]

("Discover" and the updater has been flaky for me since I installed the 16.04 beta. The exact flakiness comes and goes, presently it sometimes works, except that the progress bars always show "0 B".)

I really like muon, prefer it to synaptic, but I don't use it for updating. Presently the notifier is correct and when I see it, and the Discover updater doesn't work, I start a konsole and use

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

If something doesn't work, you get to see what went wrong and often clues about what to do about it.

[GreyGeek]

I preferred muon also, because it was a Qt app. BUT ... after returning to muon a few months ago I am reluctantly going back for the same reason I left muon in the first place: the search function works only once. To use it again I have to close muon and reopen it.

Anyone else have this problem?


Edit: fixed misstatement.

[wizard10000]

I preferred muon also, because it was a Qt app. BUT ... after returning to muon a few months ago I am reluctantly going back to Synaptic for the same reason I left muon in the first place: the search function works only once. To use it again I have to close muon and reopen it.

Anyone else have this problem?

Not a fan of muon but I just installed it to check - search works correctly for me, but I'm running Neon unstable.

[GreyGeek]

UPDATE: I made an assumption that not all of muon's packages were installed. I ran muon and entered muon into the search bar. There were three packages related to muon that were not installed (marked with an "*"), the rest were dependencies:

Installed the following packages:
libkidletime4 (4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.1)
libknewstuff2-4 (4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.1)
libkprintutils4 (4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.1)
* muon-notifier (4:5.9.5-0neon+16.04+build68)
python3-pykde4 (4:4.14.2-0ubuntu6)
python3-pyqt5 (5.7+dfsg-3+16.04+build8)
* ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt (1:16.04.21)
* update-manager-kde (1:16.04.6)

When I selected those three for installation the remaining packages were pulled along. NOW I can do repeated searches in muon.

[jlittle]

Thank you GreyGeek! It was update-manager-kde that was missing on my yakkety.

It's always been as a an info tool that's most of my use of muon; if I know the package name apt install is more handy. Muon only asks for authentication when it's needed, which I prefer to Synaptic's always requiring it.

The dependencies pulled in seemed to be very related to plasma discover; maybe it will be better behaved now.