synaptic with dpkg progressbar in hoary

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:05:46PM +0100, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > 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). 
> 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.

Thanks for testing!  Does this happens with the current version in
hoary as well? And if so, does it now print something usefull in the
terminal (if you run it from a gnome-terminal) or in the build-in
terminal (when you expand the "terminal" expander in the progressbar)?

bye,
 Michael

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