Thanks for your series on the Adept Manager. I am at a loss as to why there is no documentation for it when I click on help. And the stuff I find online is very basic and sketchy. If you know of any detailed documentation, I would love to hear about it. One question I have right now is what does the “Full Upgrade” button do? It seems like I only see it intermittently. Does it upgrade Adept Manager? Does it apply all updates? Does it upgrade to the next version of Kubuntu?

Thanks for any help/insight you can provide.

Jim Hamilton

jeff: You really don’t want adept_updater to update automatically. Some updates need to be reviewed before installing. This is just the nature of things. Most of the time, however, it’s pretty simple to do.

emiliodobrasil: I’d like to see something like this, too. Perhaps version locking as well.

Arpad Gered: That doesn’t really seem all too relevant to my post or the series of posts. If you need to report a bug you probably should. Using non-standard installers like smart may hose your install. Synaptic is a decent installer, but I really encourage you to keep trying with adept and keep posting bugs as they come up. I haven’t noticed any of the problems you’re describing.

Ivan Teran: I’m sorry, I’m not entirely certain I understand what you’re talking about. It sounds like you’re looking for changelogs. Changelogs will be implemented shortly as soon as things stop crashing ^_^

Thanks for the positive feedbacks folks. I appreciate the questions.

So if this feature has not yet been added, please make adept_updater display a dialog, like Synaptic, that some files could not be downloaded and the user has to choose to install anyway or to cancel (with cancel being the default choice).

And thanks for your answer to my comment on adept_manager. The problem is, that adept_installer (just like gnome-app-install) isn’t powerful enough for me. So it’s either adept_manager, Synaptic or S.M.A.R.T. (doesn’t work well yet) for me.

Thanks once again for this series. Now that the changes to adept are implemented in Feisty, I’ll definitely play around with these apps for a while, again.

1 question: is it possible to include some exceptions for the updates…

for exemple, not check for kernel updates? and let this for manual checking in adept?

thanks emiliodobrasil