synaptics package maneger

[Nils Kassube]

NoOp wrote:
> On 01/01/2015 09:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 January 2015 19:39:40 C de-Avillez did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> >> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 13:07:08 -0500
> >> 
> >> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> >> > Greetings;
> >> > 
> >> > On 10.04.4 LTS, synaptics is the cats meow, doing what it should
> >> > be
> >> > able to do.
> >> > 
> >> > But on the new mint-17.1 LTS Cinnamon, its best described as
> >> > broken
> >> > as two of its most useful features seem to have disappeared,
> >> > which
> >> > are:
> >> > 
> >> > 1, the ability to refresh, is there, but the ability to mark all
> >> > upgrades is gone.
> >> 
> >> Huh? Here I can do it... on any of 12.04, 14.10, or 15.04. No 10.04
> >> anymore, sorry.
> > 
> > There is simply no button in the gui, nor an option in the menu
> > pulldowns for a "mark all updates".  And while you can get a list
> > of stuff that can be updated, when you click on that file, the only
> > option is to remove it, or remove it completely, and 31 of the 32
> > packages so named also remove cinnamon.  The one thing I didn't try
> > was a sudo apt-get reinstall synaptic.
> 
> Sorry, but there *is* see:
> 
> <http://s1.postimg.org/dq4u8ae9b/Screenshot_from_2015_01_01_23_39_25.p
> ng>

Same here for Kubuntu 14.04 32 or 64 bit. But maybe it is a problem of 
Mint 17?

How about the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-G which is assigned to "mark all 
upgrades" here?


Nils