synaptics package maneger

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 02 January 2015 11:47:56 NoOp did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 01/02/2015 02:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 02 January 2015 02:47:28 NoOp did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> >> 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
> >> .pn g>
> > 
> > Thats pretty, but I don't have the mark all upgrades button you have
> > circled in red.
> > 
> > FWIW, I just ran md5sum against the burned media and got exactly the
> > md5sum posted on the Mint 17.1 download page for the amd64 cinnamon
> > version. 0307ffcd5046c176599904193899426e
> > 
> >> $ apt-cache policy synaptic
> >> 
> >> synaptic:
> >>   Installed: 0.81.1ubuntu1
> >>   Candidate: 0.81.1ubuntu1
> >>  
> >>   Version table:
> >>  *** 0.81.1ubuntu1 0
> >>  
> >>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> >> 
> >> trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
> >> 
> >>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >>      
> >>      0.81.1 0
> >>      
> >>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe
> >>         amd64
> >> 
> >> Packages
> >> ...
> > 
> > That also  pretty but meaningless on this lucid machine.
> > 
> > Looking at the casper/filesystem-manifest on the cd, it claims
> > synaptic is version 0.81.2-4.
> 
> <https://www.google.com/#q=synaptic+0.81.2-4>
> 
> <http://tuxtweaks.com/2014/09/restore-mark-all-upgrades-in-synaptic-lin
> ux-mint-17/>
> 
> I suggest that you find, and ask on a Mint support list/group...
> 
> ...

There is not a mint list that google can find.  And because of that lack 
of support, Mint 17.1 LTS is history, its been over-written with debian 7 
(wheezy) with a custom realtime kernel.  And so far, everything works.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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