synaptic with dpkg progressbar in hoary

[Julien Olivier]

> If your version of synaptic is recent enough (0.55+cvs2005* should do)
> you will get a progress-bar when installing packages. If you want (or
> the program tries to prompt on the terminal direcly) you can exapnd
> the "Terminal" expander to see what's going on. The Debconf frontend
> is set to gnome by default in this mode, (so libgnome2-perl is
> recommended but not enforced). 
> 
> Please report any problems/suggestions to me (or the bugzilla). 
> 

Hi Michael,

I tried the new synaptic with the progressbar, and it worked perfectly
when adding/removing software.
However, I tried to update my system and it failed. All it did was
download all the files, and go back to the main window. I didn't get any
error message in the GUI or in the terminal. If I re-check "execute the
changes in a terminal window", everything works perfectly.

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>