Synaptic does not see last package realeases: bug, other problem or what?
by dedec0 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5QKYX)
Hello, there.
I am also an user of the great Vivaldi browser. Last saturday, a new mail arrived to me, talking about the features of a new small update that was just made available. I read them, and decided i would like to see them work. I do not make every update, of every possible thing. But for some details, i wanted that new Vivaldi release.
So, as i prefer to do, and find it practical, i opened synaptic. Pressed the button to reload the package information from all sources i have in it - and Vivaldi one is included, of course -, and waited some seconds. "Great, just download it, now?" - i thought. No! The latest version available did not change. Apparently had the last one, "4.0.something". Not even in a smaller part than the one i have installed changed.
I decided to ask about it in a Vivaldi forum, and so i did. I discovered or confirmed that:
1. My setup here is correct.
2. Synaptic has been, at least for some time before today, a package manager that fails to see random packages updates (so, what happened with me, or what i noted for the first time, is not a discovery).
3. That 'apt update; apt upgrade' will not upgrade my distribution to a newer one. It will not change my LTS release of Debian. For that, i must manually change /etc/sources.list*.
But in the thread i mentioned, the person who told me she abandoned synaptic, showed me a working (recent!) screenshot of synaptic, and it worked! Why mine still does not? I even repeated it here. You may want to read the thread there too:
...vivaldi.net/.../solved-update-should-be-installed-from-snapshot-package
In a recent thread i started here, in LQ, 'apt upgrade' seemed to be something to do JUST when we will upgrade the OS, and not just the software we have installed. Can you, please, explain this to me? What i understood from this thread was that 'apt upgrade's were just for distribution upgrades, and the name was different just for this "detail" (and i did not notice it before).
Can you help me get a working synaptic setup, or a clear context, to submit a bug report for it?
'aptitude' sees the new version. 'synaptic' does not, even after i check it with 'aptitude'. I thought that synaptic used /etc/sources.list* too, as its repositories... /-: Did i forget that i set them up twice, when i first did things for this computer, a few years ago?
I did not update Vivaldi just to wait for this thread... well.
Thank you
I am also an user of the great Vivaldi browser. Last saturday, a new mail arrived to me, talking about the features of a new small update that was just made available. I read them, and decided i would like to see them work. I do not make every update, of every possible thing. But for some details, i wanted that new Vivaldi release.
So, as i prefer to do, and find it practical, i opened synaptic. Pressed the button to reload the package information from all sources i have in it - and Vivaldi one is included, of course -, and waited some seconds. "Great, just download it, now?" - i thought. No! The latest version available did not change. Apparently had the last one, "4.0.something". Not even in a smaller part than the one i have installed changed.
I decided to ask about it in a Vivaldi forum, and so i did. I discovered or confirmed that:
1. My setup here is correct.
2. Synaptic has been, at least for some time before today, a package manager that fails to see random packages updates (so, what happened with me, or what i noted for the first time, is not a discovery).
3. That 'apt update; apt upgrade' will not upgrade my distribution to a newer one. It will not change my LTS release of Debian. For that, i must manually change /etc/sources.list*.
But in the thread i mentioned, the person who told me she abandoned synaptic, showed me a working (recent!) screenshot of synaptic, and it worked! Why mine still does not? I even repeated it here. You may want to read the thread there too:
...vivaldi.net/.../solved-update-should-be-installed-from-snapshot-package
In a recent thread i started here, in LQ, 'apt upgrade' seemed to be something to do JUST when we will upgrade the OS, and not just the software we have installed. Can you, please, explain this to me? What i understood from this thread was that 'apt upgrade's were just for distribution upgrades, and the name was different just for this "detail" (and i did not notice it before).
Can you help me get a working synaptic setup, or a clear context, to submit a bug report for it?
'aptitude' sees the new version. 'synaptic' does not, even after i check it with 'aptitude'. I thought that synaptic used /etc/sources.list* too, as its repositories... /-: Did i forget that i set them up twice, when i first did things for this computer, a few years ago?
I did not update Vivaldi just to wait for this thread... well.
Thank you