Adept Updater Questions

[luggw1]

I've got a package that the latest version in the repositories seems to be a version older than the latest version that the development team has produced. I installed the latest version and now the Adept Updater wants to reinstall the older version over the newer one. Is there a way to stop this from happening? Along the same line, one of the choices when you right click on a package is "Request purging". What does this do?

On a related note, When I click on the Adept Updater Handbook in the Help menu (or any help for that matter), I get a message stating that "There is no documentation available for /adept_updater/index.html." Is there a package I need to install that contains these help files or some other configuration that needs to be done?

Thanks for the help.
Bill Lugg

[kle]

Re: Adept Updater Questions

I'm afraid I cannot help you with the first of your questions.

I have not seen any documentation about Adept as such. But googling will bring up a great deal of information about how to deal with the repositories, and about the Ubuntu equivalent of Adept (Synaptic) and command line manipulation of the repos through apt-get, etc.

In the early days of K/ubuntu, one had to revert every once in a while to the command line. Although I never really had to do that much, because I am a newcomer, I have found the outline in the following link extremely useful. See under "removal" there for your "purging". (The command line stuff is identical for Ubuntu and Kubuntu, except that you don't use "gedit" in Kubuntu, but "nano".)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu

[claydoh]

Re: Adept Updater Questions

Your newer package wants to be replaced by the one in the repos because its package name is making it look older than the 'standard' one. You can 'pin' a specific version of a package, but it does involve manually editing a config files/using commandline tools

Which program is this? Often a new version of a program may be available in Ubuntu's backports repository, or in a ppa.

If there is I can easily point you there

[luggw1]

Re: Adept Updater Questions

The package is called xtrkcad. It's a model railroad layout design software. the version that Adept Updater is finding is 4.0.1, but the latest version is 4.0.2. Adept claims that 4.0.1 is "later" than 4.0.2 that is already installed on the machine. I don't quite understand how it comes up with that, but I'd like to either stop it from attempting to "update" it or point it to a repository that actually contains 4.0.2. I don't want to accidentally overwrite my current installation.

Thanks for the help.

Bill Lugg