15.04 issues

[O. Sinclair]

On 25/04/2015 16:37, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 04/25/2015 08:51 AM, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> Hi Billie,
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>
>> wrote:
>>> On 04/25/2015 01:57 AM, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> Muon package manager seems to have issues in finding packages
>>>
>>> Muon has been a joke from it's inception. Install Synaptic, but you
>>> can't do
>>> it from Muon because Muon can't find it.
>>>
>> Because you don't use the Muon package manager. There is a huge
>> difference between the Muon Discover application which indeed doesn't
>> find half of the stuff. But the Muon package manager works pretty
>> flawlessly here (Kubuntu 14.10), much better than synaptic used to
>> work. The latter has seen some serious downgrading as it is not
>> actively maintained anymore.
>>
>> The difference is this one:
>>
>> muon = package manager
>> muon-discover = package browser that doesn't really work as well as
>> expected.
>>
>> Removing muon-discover solve the problem quite well. Since 14.10
>> (maybe even earlier, can't remember when exactly) muon works very much
>> like synaptic did.
>>
>> As for Kubuntu 15.04: I totally agree with Orjan here, not for me, I
>> guess I will toy around with it on the test laptop, but it is too far
>> from stable for my productive computer.
>>
>> Regards, Myriam
> 
> The only way I have ever been able to get Muon to do squat is to
> download a .deb file and install from the download folder.
> 
> In my "menu" all that shows is "Muon Discover (Software Center)" and
> "Muon Update Manager".
> 
> Just because it isn't being actively maintained doesn't mean it doesn't
> work. My ol' Granpappy used to say, "If'n it ain't broke, don't fix it."
> 
My issue is not "Muon versus Synaptic" - I am very fine with Muon
package manager in 14.10, I never use the Discover and Update versions.

The issue I have is that in the VM 15.04 I am testing out the Muon
Package Manager is not working as it should.