<div dir="ltr">on my mint system the mint update manager is 'software manager' under the menu button while synaptic is the 'package manager'.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:15 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you, Tom, for your very thorough response.<br>
Now, if my aging mind can manage to sort through it all,<br>
I believe you probably have provided valuable assistance.<br>
<br>
Joe<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
> [endnotes follow .sig]<br>
><br>
> Josef Lowder[1]<br>
>> Every time I open the Synaptic update manager,<br>
><br>
> Actually, no ...<br>
><br>
>> Here are three successive screen shots of this problem:<br>
><br>
>> From Nov 18: <a href="http://www.upquick.com/temp/updatemanager1.jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.upquick.com/temp/<wbr>updatemanager1.jpg</a><br>
><br>
> That screenshot shows 3 problems, only one of which you discuss in your<br>
> post. The first problem, which may seem "merely semantic"[2], is that<br>
> your screenshot is of an application called "Update Manager," not<br>
> Synaptic. This can be easily shown by launching the two apps via their<br>
> commandlines. Goto your terminal of choice (I have no idea what that is<br>
> in KDE, which appears to be problem 2, but we'll deal with that next),<br>
> and therein utter the following commandlines[3]<br>
><br>
> kdesudo mintupdate &<br>
><br>
> kdesudo synaptic &<br>
><br>
> The first commandline above should (after you type your password) launch<br>
> the application that troubles you, which I claim is Update Manager, aka<br>
> UM, aka mintupdate. The second will launch the application commonly known<br>
> as Synaptic, about which you have no complaint (yet :-)<br>
><br>
> Now that you're clear on that (hopefully), you can solve your first<br>
> problem, which is being unclear about the etiology[4] of your problem.<br>
> The second problem you must solve is, seek help from the appropriate<br>
> community. Given the presence of the KDE icon in the above screenshot,<br>
> and the appearance of your window frames in all 3, I'm guessing you're<br>
> running one of the KDE Mints[5]. If that's false, ignore the following<br>
> paragraph:<br>
><br>
> Mint is not anymore a distro, it's an ecosystem including several varying<br>
> distros as well as numerous associated applications and environments.<br>
> E.g., I run mostly Cinnamon LMDE, which is somewhat different from MATE<br>
> LMDE, and quite different from the Ubuntu-based Mints. The vast majority<br>
> of all of those, however, are GNOME-based, and as such the vast majority<br>
> of Mint users will have very little of use to say about a problem<br>
> involving KDE (or, for that matter, LXDE or Xfce--but at least those<br>
> desktops are based on GTK, which underlies GNOME).<br>
><br>
> Which leaves the third problem, which is, what's wrong with your<br>
> mintupdate? I dunno. Someone else on this forum might; if so, ignore the<br>
> following recommendation. I recommend you goto the Mint forum='Software &<br>
> Applications'[6] (on which I have several times gotten useful information<br>
> in the past) and describe your problem with a subject line like<br>
><br>
> mintupdate problems on KDE [your Mint version here]<br>
><br>
> Use the term 'mintupdate' because it's generally understood and most<br>
> exact. (For extra credit, goto Help>About and note which mintupdate<br>
> version you're running.) Be sure to be clear about which version of Mint<br>
> you're running, and about the fact (unless I'm completely wrong) that<br>
> you're running KDE. This is mostly likely to get you performant and<br>
> skillful help ... though, again, there may not be many folks running KDE<br>
> on the forum--I dunno. If you *do* get responses:<br>
><br>
> The verdict may very well be that mintupdate does not run well on KDE, in<br>
> which case you should seek recommendations about alternate package<br>
> managers to run. (Personally, I'd recommend one of the fine CLI dpkg/APT<br>
> tools like `aptitude`, which also has a TUI[7], which kinda "splits the<br>
> difference" between a GUI and a CLI.) Alternatively, there may be a<br>
> problem with your host's current repositories, downloaded packages, or<br>
> other parts of its current dpkg/APT configuration that is choking your<br>
> host's mintupdate in a manner that has nothing to do with KDE.<br>
><br>
> HTH, Tom Roche <<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>><br>
><br>
> [1]:<br>
> <a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20161215.191124.4beac47c.en.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/<wbr>lurker/message/20161215.<wbr>191124.4beac47c.en.html</a><br>
> [2]: Readers are encouraged to deliver verbal or physical dopeslaps to<br>
> anyone uttering the phrase "merely semantic." "Semantics" are quite<br>
> literally the meanings of words, and failures to agree on meanings of<br>
> words usually lead quickly to failures to communicate. Which is usually<br>
> bad.<br>
> [3]: Note that as someone with extremely limited KDE usage, ICBW here,<br>
> but I believe its equivalent of `gksudo` is `kdesudo`.<br>
> [4]: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aetiology#English" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wiktionary.org/<wbr>wiki/aetiology#English</a><br>
> [5]: latest being (IIUC) <a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=224" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linuxmint.com/<wbr>edition.php?id=224</a><br>
> (since I can't find reference to a KDE for Serena yet)<br>
> [6]: <a href="https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=47" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forums.linuxmint.com/<wbr>viewforum.php?f=47</a><br>
> [7]: For TUI screenshots, see<br>
> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/821164/how-do-i-access-the-aptitude-why-functionality-through-aptitude-s-interactive" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/<wbr>questions/821164/how-do-i-<wbr>access-the-aptitude-why-<wbr>functionality-through-<wbr>aptitude-s-interactive</a><br>
> and ignore the answer that describes it as a GUI--it's not.<br>
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