Adept notifier announces unavailable upgrades

[MoeNeigh]

Adept notifier just notified me of five upgrades. When I clicked on the notifier, it began downloading files. However, the final result was they were not available for upgrade, at least not through Adept. The were listed in gold lettering with the words "upgradable". Clicking on them did not result in any further action. The upgrades were:

base-files.....upgradable
libdvdcss2.....upgradable
libsmbclient.....upgradable
samba-common.....upgradable
smbclient.....upgradable

The only file of these that I really recognize is libdvdcss2, which is installed. I just played a dvd with kaffeine, for example.

I have universe, restricted and medibuntu repositories available. So Adept becomes aware of these upgrades, but they are not available in any of the repositories? Can someone explain this? Thanks.

[nowshining]

Re: Adept notifier announces unavailable upgrades

libsmbclient.....upgradable
samba-common.....upgradable
smbclient.....upgradable

in terminal

aptitude search libsamba
aptitude search samba-common
aptitude search smbclient


......

They are in mine - did you try searching adept? I use synaptic in kde it's easier for a gui that is to search and install items from the ubuntu repos.

[MoeNeigh]

Re: Adept notifier announces unavailable upgrades

Well, I did try to search adept; and yes, they were in mine as well. But when I tried to upgrade them, they stayed "upgradable", there was no "apply changes" button, and they did not upgrade.

Synaptic, though, I had forgotten about that. I searched for, and marked each of the five apps for upgrade. Synaptic found them all and upgraded them successfully. I then went back to adept, and they were marked "installed" (green) this time, instead of just "upgradable" (yellow).

Thank you. Problem solved. They also no longer show up in the adept notifier, which was what I was hoping for.

[Snowhog]

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KDE 3.5.x or KDE 4.x ?

[MoeNeigh]

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How do I determine the version of kde? I searched in adept, I see kde4 says "not installed". So I guess it's 3.

[nowshining]

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that and just right click on the kicker - help - about kde and it should show it in big bold letters at the top.

[MoeNeigh]

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Right click on the kicker. Thanks, it's 3.5.9. I'm wondering if I should install kde4?

Wow! I see that adept notifier is telling me I now have 29 updates. But, as soon as I click on it, it's going to try to update those 29 packages without telling me what they are. Is there any way to see what the updates are beforehand?

[dibl]

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Sure -- there's a "Preview Changes" or something like that, right beside the "Fetch" button.

[Snowhog]

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The updater first pulls in the updated package 'information - headers.' It doesn't install anything until you click the Apply button.

[MoeNeigh]

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Thanks to both of you. Before, I probably did hit "Apply Changes", but somehow forget and thought it happened automatically. Must keep both hands on the keyboard at all times.

Just out of curiosity, Snowhog, I see you're running both KDE 3.5.9 and 4.1. Any improvements or problems in upgrading to KDE 4.1 in Hardy?

[Snowhog]

Re: Adept notifier announces unavailable upgrades

Just out of curiosity, Snowhog, I see you're running both KDE 3.5.9 and 4.1. Any improvements or problems in upgrading to KDE 4.1 in Hardy?

In installed HH Remix - I didn't upgrade from 3.5.9. I use HH 3.5.9 as my primary OS, booting into the other two occasionally to get updates installed. Up until recently, I wasn't impressed with all the non-functionality of 4.1. But the last 'major' update made it much more useable. I'm looking forward to the 'final' release.