synaptics package maneger

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:


> 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.

You might want to check on a Mint list because the Mint devs might
have changed this independently of Ubuntu.


> The third impediment being NetworkMangler, which cannot/will not accept a
> working configuration, causing me to revert to the same methods I used on
> 10.04.4 and which got me into all sorts of hot water on this list years
> ago, which is to copy the /etc/network/interfaces file from the old
> install, and make it immutable. Ditto the /etc/resolv.conf link to
> something else, nuke it, copy in the old one, and make it immutable too.
> Instant internet on a init.d/networking restart.
>
> The networking I can fix since everything here on my local net is on fixed
> addresses using hosts files.

I was probably one of the people who told you that it was bad practice
to make resolv.conf immutable.

Whether you're using resolvconf or not:

- for ifupdown, set "supersede domain-name-servers
ip_address_of_preferred_nameserver;" in "/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf"

- for NM set "dns=ip_address_of_preferred_nameserver;" in the "[ipv4]"
section of your connection in
"/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/" (this can also be done via
the nm-applet)

There's no reason to set "/etc/network/interfaces" as immutable
because NM only reads it. (If you don't have an empty
"/etc/network/interfaces" or one where just lo is configured, you have
to change the NM prefs to use the cofigured interfaces.)


> TBD by a reboot whether or not the NFS lines from this fstab, copied into
> the new fstab will work, I don't seem to be able to mount the nfs shares
> by hand even if the fstab line is exactly the same as what works now. It
> complains that the host share is not in FQDN:dir format, but the instant I
> try to add the :dir portion it totally fails. Without it, its complains
> gently and then Just Works(TM).

What's the fstab entry and what are you mounting by hand?