Can I Do This to Keep My System Clean?

[oldgeek]

I believe that is actually true, and if I wasn’t able to change that, I wouldn’t use it. I edited the script and replaced “apt upgrade” with apt-full-upgrade”. Running “apt upgrade” is a sure way (IMO) to wreck havoc on your system!

How would I edit the script? I've never done that before--not intentionally, at any rate.

[vinnywright]

How would I edit the script? I've never done that before--not intentionally, at any rate.

it dos not appear to need editing if you have the latest ver ,,,

from the script ,,,,,,,,,,,,

## Updates package lists
   sudo apt update;
   echo
   echo "###############################"
   echo "Finished updating package lists"
   echo "###############################"
   sleep 1

   ## Updates packages and libraries
   [COLOR=#ff0000]sudo apt full-upgrade -y;[/COLOR]
   echo
   echo "###############################################"
   echo "Finished updating packages and system libraries"
   echo "###############################################"
   sleep 1
   echo

VINNY

[dequire]

it dos not appear to need editing if you have the latest ver ,,,

from the script ,,,,,,,,,,,,

## Updates package lists
  sudo apt update;
  echo
  echo "###############################"
  echo "Finished updating package lists"
  echo "###############################"
  sleep 1

  ## Updates packages and libraries
  [COLOR=#ff0000]sudo apt full-upgrade -y;[/COLOR]
  echo
  echo "###############################################"
  echo "Finished updating packages and system libraries"
  echo "###############################################"
  sleep 1
  echo

VINNY

That's almost literally what I just posted above! At any rate, it's a great tool! If one chooses to use it or not doesn't change that fact.

[vinnywright]

That's almost literally what I just posted above! At any rate, it's a great tool! If one chooses to use it or not doesn't change that fact.

I am sorry if I seamed to be disparaging to what is obviously one of your preferred tools ...I did not mean to come across like that ,,,,but re-reading it all I guess I did.

after looking over the script it looks ok to me ,,,,but I am apprehensive toured automated scripts like this for package management as I have been bit in the Arss by things like this befor and I think it was "deborphan " that got me ,,,so it being in the script gives me pause.

+ I like to see what is going to be done and have the chance to cancel if I do not like what I see.

when I said in post#6 ,,,"OK so I have seen you push this before " ,,,I did not mean it like your pushing obscure scripts at us ,,,,,my bad choice of words it should have been "recommend" ,,,,,,I "push" things I like as well ,,,,,like QMplay2 .

again I apologize if I seamed to be badmouthing one of your go to tools ,,,,it dose look like a good one for most people.

VINNY

[oldgeek]

Actually, Vinny, I for one appreciate your scepticism. I like the program, but every time I run it get a series of error messages while it seems to complete every task assigned to it. I'm including a screenshot with a highlighted section which appears during every task. I don't know why I keep getting it and I don't know what is wrong. As long as I keep getting this I do not depend on ucare for my daily maintenance tasks. Can anyone tell me what's going on?

[Snowhog]

The image you posted is to small to be able to read the text when zoomed in on. Can you repost with a full-sized image, or just copy/paste the relevant text?

[oldgeek]

Hmm, I thought it was a full-sized image. Here's another version, and it seemed to zoom all right in Firefox.

[Snowhog]

You have a 3rd Party Repository -- Utappia -- which doesn't appear to be available for neon/xenial. That in itself raises the question: why are you using a neon/xenial PPA in a Trusty installation? Mixing repository versions is generally not a good idea.

[wizard10000]

I use this script to clean up the mess. It runs deborphan over and over until there are no orphaned packages left. Be careful, though - and make sure you understand and agree with deborphan's output before telling it to go ahead

#!/bin/bash
# run deborphan and remove the output packages untill there are no more
while true; do
   if [[ $(deborphan --guess-all) ]]; then
       apt-get purge `deborphan --guess-all`
       apt-get --purge autoremove
   else
       break
   fi
done

[oshunluvr]

I just check and Utappia does have xenial packages. I wonder if you have a mis-configured source in apt for that PPA.

[Snowhog]

Ah. So the PPA is where ucaresystem-core is obtained. But he's using neon/xenial instead of trusty. He should just need to change the designation in the utappia sources list file to trusty. Then update the package cache and re-run the script.

[oldgeek]

I'm not the one using Trusty. I have a Neon/Kubuntu hybrid (16.04) and was taking advantage of the thread to ask why I got the error messages. I just followed the link to download and install it. Maybe it's the hybrid nature of my OS. I have no error messages with Lubuntu (on my old netbook).

[oldgeek]

This might be related to the above problem, so I'm posting it here. I tried to install the latest SM Player (17.12) but when I tried to add the repository I got the same type of message as with Utappia repository.

[oshunluvr]

oldgeek, do you get any errors when you run sudo apt update in a terminal?

[oldgeek]

No errors at all. Just when I try to add the repos.