synaptic with dpkg progressbar in hoary

[Joe Barnett]

The only problem I've noticed with this so far is that it doesn't
interact well (or at all) with apt-listchanges...  You need to use the
terminal to see/accept the new changes.


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:20:46 +0100, Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> 
> synaptic now has the feature to hide the dpkg output when instaling
> packages and display a nice progress bar instead.
> 
> To make  sure that  it works as  expected it  would be really  nice if
> users of hoary and synaptic  could help testing this feature by seting
> "Settings/Preferences/Apply changes in terminal window" to unchecked
> (this will be the default for hoary).
> 
> 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).
> 
> Thanks,
>  Michael
> 
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