[LightDM] Autologin (lightdm) questions

[sktsee]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:04:28 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:32:37 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not
> for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>> > At Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:13:19 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,
>> > not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> You don't need to upgrade your entire system to 14.10. You can just
>> >> pull in lightdm and, possibly, its dependencies from 14.10.
>> >
>> > OK, I am not very familiar with Ubuntu's packaging system and
>> > repository system (I am much more familiar with RedHat, specifically
>> > CentOS, with EPel,
>> > Rpmforge, and ELRepo). I also don't want to inflict an unstable
>> > system upon users who are not very sophisticated computer users. One
>> > of the reasons for using a LTS release is that it should be
>> > conservative and stable.
>> 
>> I've just had a different idea (that I should've had earlier).
>> 
>> You can enable the backports repository. I've just checked:
>> 
>> # cat /etc/apt/sources.list #deb http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
>> utopic main restricted universe multiverse deb
>> http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main
>> 
>> # apt-cache policy lightdm lightdm:
>>   Installed: 1.11.4-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.11.4-0ubuntu1 Version table:
>>  *** 1.11.4-0ubuntu1 0
>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> 
>> So it's available in -backports and is at the same version as my 14.10
>> version.
>> 
>> And its "Release" file has "NotAutomatic: yes" and
>> "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes" so you won't be pulling in anything from
>> there unless you install it specifically; it's more or less similar to
>> having "enabled=0" in the repo file of "backports" on RHEL/Fedora and
>> installing a package with "yum install --disablerepo=*
>> --enablerepo=backports lightdm".
> 
> OK, trusty-backports is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list:
> ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org% cat /etc/apt/sources.list ..
> ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ##
> extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
> ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful
> features.
> ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
> review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse deb-src
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted
> universe multiverse ..
> 
> But I can't seem to get apt-get to install 1.11.4:
> 
> ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org% apt-cache policy lightdm lightdm:
>   Installed: 1.10.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.10.1-0ubuntu1 Package pin:
>   (not found) Version table:
>  *** 1.10.1-0ubuntu1 1001
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main
>         amd64
> Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      1.10.0-0ubuntu3 1001
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64
>         Packages
>                                       
> I've created a /etc/apt/preferences file with this in it:
> 
> ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org% cat /etc/apt/preferences Package:
> lightdm Pin: version 1.11*
> Pin-Priority: 1001
> 
> But:
> 
> ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org% sudo apt-get install lightdm Reading
> package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state
> information... Done lightdm is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org% dpkg-query -l lightdm
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-
pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
> +++-==============-============-============-
=================================
> ii  lightdm        1.10.1-0ubun amd64        Display Manager
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Otherwise the system is all up-to-date at 14.04.1 (I just did an apt-get
> update;apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade).
> 
>

Afraid that lightdm isn't in trusty's backports repository

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lightdm&searchon=names&suite=trusty-backports&section=all

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sktsee