[ubuntu-studio-devel] Software updater - bug?

[James Freer]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Len Ovens wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, James Freer wrote:
>
>> I have only been using Ubuntu Studio for a week, but I've noticed that if 
>> one uses apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade it seems to trigger the 
>> Software Updater to then repeat the process. This didn't happen in Xubuntu.
>
> Not sure what is up with that. I assume you are using 14.04? This is not 
> unique to UbuntuStudio, It seems to happen with Kubuntu as well.I would think 
> what triggers it is the update. Yup just confirmed that. I think this is new 
> behavior. (It is probably considered an improvement  :)  )

Also with Xubuntu - clearly a 14.04 problem. It would seem developers are 
working on it from some of the posts elsewhere I've seen.

> I think the theory is that Ubuntu (meaning all the Ubuntu flavours) "is a GUI 
> based distro and so what on earth would someone be using apt-get for anyway?"
>
> So if you normally do updating by hand from CLI maybe try going to settings 
> -> session and startup -> Application Autostart and remove the check from 
> "Update Notifier". There is an anacron task that runs once a day that does 
> the update part, so I think the notifier just looks to see if anything was 
> found.

As I understand it the Update Notifier, Software centre, Synaptic - are all 
front-ends to apt-get. When Update Notifier indicates an update - I quite often 
use apt-get (which I have set up with loads of aliases in .bash-aliases) as 
with the --verbose option one gets more info on the packages being installed. 
Sometimes still use Update Notifier quite often.

james