Speaking of updates ... this is getting surreal

[Spadge]

The counting updates thing is getting silly now.



Is it 8, 5 or 4?

[whatthefunk]

Ive noticed this to. The entire GUI for updates needs to be scrubbed and redone in my opinion. My typical day starts with me turning on the computer and instantly getting a notification that I have X many updates ready. I do the upgrade in the console and actually only have Y updates. Then, heres the best part, right after I finish the update, I get a new notification telling me that there are more updates. I check and there are none.

[schnelle]

I added all 3 staging ppas (discover is in plasma staging I think) and I think now discover/updater works better. But I don't have any updates to test atm

Edit: on 16.04.

[Notsonoble]

Does the notification bar icon update correctly in 16.04, that's been off since 15.04

[vinnywright]

Does the notification bar icon update correctly in 16.04, that's been off since 15.04

Apparently



BUT I do my updates on the CLI ,,,,,,the notifier has however reflected the fact that the system is good .

VINNY

[alest]

...The entire GUI for updates needs to be scrubbed and redone in my opinion...

Agreed. In 15.10 the updates system in Plasma is somehow messed up. After some update the muon-updater doesn't get rights again even with polkit installed. Muon Discover shows updates but refuses to install them. The notification icon shows randomly. And the entire computer gets swamped during apt-check running so I can't work for 15 minutes.

Does anyone know what are the plans? Will it be better in 16.04?

[schnelle]

Agreed. In 15.10 the updates system in Plasma is somehow messed up. After some update the muon-updater doesn't get rights again even with polkit installed. Muon Discover shows updates but refuses to install them. The notification icon shows randomly. And the entire computer gets swamped during apt-check running so I can't work for 15 minutes.

Does anyone know what are the plans? Will it be better in 16.04?

Works fine on 16.04.

[Teunis]

And the entire computer gets swamped during apt-check running so I can't work for 15 minutes.

Does anyone know what are the plans? Will it be better in 16.04?

Since Muon proper has been disabled I've started going 100% CLI and I've never seen any problem with apt update, apt list --upgradable and apt dist-upgrade.

I did install Synaptic but don't particularly like it's layout but I find it easier for searching than from the CLI.
By fooling around with libmuon I was also able to reinstall Muon but am not using it much any more.

The above is valid for both 15.10 and 16.04 whereby I am convinced the two 16.04 installs I have are significantly more stable than 15.10 that I find the worst ever Kubuntu.

[jlittle]

• That's apt full-upgrade, or apt-get dist-upgrade.
• About twice since Hardy, the CLI has got stuck on me, and aptitude to the rescue.
• For me, 15.04 was worse than 15.10.

Regards, John Little