Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

[stephen_biggs]

I wasn't sure whether to put this in here or in the Gutsy forum, but since this is related first of all to a Feisty install, I'll start with here.

I have seen all over the Internet as well as in Gutsy documentation that the recommended way to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy is to go to Adept Manager (as root, of course :-), then go to Manage Repositories and then make sure that "Recommended Updates" is turned on.

What I get when I go to the "Manage Repositories" screen is a GUI view of the text of my /etc/apt/sources.list with no buttons or any other cute screen with checkmarks like I have seen. Could this be because I edited my sources.list by hand? I have tried to restore a vanilla sort of sources.list, but with no joy.

How do I get Adept Manager to show the screen that everybody else is seeing? I don't know if I should use the "System Update Tool" under K->System since that seems to me to be simple Ubuntu? I see downloading the DVD as my only other alternative to upgrade; but this might mean something is fundamentally broken on my system?

Any help appreciated.

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

As was observed by another poster with the same issue, you seem to be running an *older* version of Adept Manager (Edgy maybe?). That aside, in order to be able to follow the posted upgrade instructions, you need to running the latest version of Adept Manager.

Okay. First, reboot your system to ensure that no occurrence of Adept Manger is running. If the Adept Notifier shows up, right-click it and select Quit.

Open a konsole and type:

sudo apt-get autoremove

then:

sudo apt-get autoclean

then:

sudo apt-get update

then:

sudo apt-get install

What we are doing is cleaning up the Adept package archives on your system, and forcing apt-get to look for updated packages. If you are in fact running an older version of Adept Manager, it should be updated. If on the off chance this does not update Adept Manager to the current version, this process does no harm.

[stephen_biggs]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

As was observed by another poster with the same issue, you seem to be running an *older* version of Adept Manager (Edgy maybe?). That aside, in order to be able to follow the posted upgrade instructions, you need to running the latest version of Adept Manager.

Okay. First, reboot your system to ensure that no occurrence of Adept Manger is running. If the Adept Notifier shows up, right-click it and select Quit.

Open a konsole and type:

sudo apt-get autoremove

then:

sudo apt-get autoclean

then:

sudo apt-get update

then:

sudo apt-get install

What we are doing is cleaning up the Adept package archives on your system, and forcing apt-get to look for updated packages. If you are in fact running an older version of Adept Manager, it should be updated. If on the off chance this does not update Adept Manager to the current version, this process does no harm.

Hey, thanks for the reply. I am running (from "About Adept Manager") Adept Manager 2.1 Cruiser (Using KDE 3.5.6). Is this the right version?

Here is the output of your command sequence:
steve@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
steve@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Del wine 0.9.45~winehq0~ubuntu~7.04-1 [10.6MB]
Del wine 0.9.46~winehq0~ubuntu~7.04-1 [10.6MB]
steve@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com feisty Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com feisty Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release
Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages
Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com feisty/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Sources
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Sources
Fetched 4B in 16s (0B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
steve@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
steve@localhost:~$

Still no joy.

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Hey, thanks for the reply. I am running (from "About Adept Manager") Adept Manager 2.1 Cruiser (Using KDE 3.5.6). Is this the right version?

2.1 Cruiser (KDE 3.5.6) is correct for Feisty. Hmm. You don't have the following when you click on Adept | Manage Repositories?

[stephen_biggs]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

I'll show you what I get if you tell me how you created those JPGs.

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Use KSnapshot. K Menu | Graphics | KSnapshot

Choose 'window under cursor' to limit the image to just the item you place your mouse cursor over. The program is very simple to use. The default save to location is your home folder. Once the images are saved, you post to your message by clicking on the Additional Options... in the Post Reply. You will see the line for adding files (you click on the folder to the right of the file name field) that you select by browsing to the location on you PC.

[stephen_biggs]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Thanks... learned something new today!

Here's what I get in "Manage Repositories".

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Yup, that isn't what you should be seeing. That looks a lot like what I had in Adept Manage Repositories when running Edgy. Was your system upgraded from an earlier release??

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Well, I guess it's time to start looking at the 'depends' packages that adept-manager needs. Here is the list from my working system:

Depends
adept-common, kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.5-1), libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6-3.53, libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.2), libtdb1, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)

It'll be slow, but open Adept Manager and check each package above. Verify that they are installed, and that the version is the same as shown above. If you have any that are different, note them.

[stephen_biggs]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Thanks for the help.

Yes, this was an upgrade from Edgy, via the DVD. It had a few hiccups but it seemed to go well, until just now.

[newbie_mode]Can you tell me the command line to execute to get that dependency list?[/newbie_mode]

[stephen_biggs]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Well, I guess it's time to start looking at the 'depends' packages that adept-manager needs. Here is the list from my working system:

Depends
adept-common, kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.5-1), libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6-3.53, libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.2), libtdb1, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)

It'll be slow, but open Adept Manager and check each package above. Verify that they are installed, and that the version is the same as shown above. If you have any that are different, note them.

The only two weirdnesses are that libapt-pkg-libc6 seems to be "apt" and that libxcursor1 version is 1.1.8 (what does "> >" mean as a version comparison?)

# apt-get install libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6-3.53
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting apt instead of libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6-3.53
apt is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
#

# apt-get install --reinstall libxcursor1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.3kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-1 [24.3kB]
Fetched 24.3kB in 0s (25.0kB/s)
(Reading database ... 200695 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-1 (using .../libxcursor1_1%3a1.1.8-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libxcursor1 ...
Setting up libxcursor1 (1.1.8-1) ...
#

[stephen_biggs]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

(answering my own post :P )

Ah, I see that libxcursor1 is ok since it is 1.1.8 and the required is 1.1.2.

What can be the problem here?

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Can you tell me the command line to execute to get that dependency list?

It's done using the kio-apt package and Konqueror. It's pretty cool. My post here explains it.

[kubicle]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

Any help appreciated.

Install package 'software-properties-kde' to get the 'new' manage repositories dialog

[chronophobic]

Re: Can't see "Recommended Updates" button and other screens in Adept Manager

I have the same issue as the OP, I followed the advice on this thread (adept manager seems up to date and software-properties-kde is installed and updated to the latest version).

I'll just check the dependencies one by one I guess...

Edit: in my case this is NOT an update from Edgy - I installed Feisty from the CD.
I have a small bit of proprietary or non-standard software (clamav, skype and a locally-compiled mssql apache module), but I uninstalled those and it didn't help. I use apt-get and aptitude interchangeably and I have the Synapitic package manager installed (was required for some install a while ago but I don't remember the details).