On 2021-08-29 11:15 a.m., dep wrote:

said midi-pascal: | Hi all, | | Since the last TDE stable upgrade (many months ago), the update-notifier | applet is not available anymore. | | Is there a good reason to have it removed from TDE or did it fell in a | crack? | | It was useful to know if some updates are available in a simple way. | | I am missing this small and efficient little applet.

Your mileage may vary, but I think it is good practice each day, first thing, to open a terminal and run "sudo apt uipdate." Little applets are nice though also often annoying (far more so in Plasma), while running from a terminal encourages one to be more circumspect and actually learn more about proposed upgrades. I have a few applicatoions that I certainly wish I hadn't upgraded.

Which I realize doesn't answer your question. But the absence of the little applet might push you toward investigating something that is ultimately good computer hygiene. -- dep

Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@trinitydesktop.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@trinitydesktop.org Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskto...

Hi,

My mileage is 40+ years in programming with many programming languages under many OS's (CPM, DOS, VAX/VMS, Windows - from 3.1 to 10-, various Unix flavors, various Linux, platform-specific OS's) so I am not afraid of a terminal and command-line since there has been nothing else to interact with a computer for a long time :-)

I found the update notifier applet a nice utility: green->nothing new, red->there are updates available.

So when it was red, I go to the command-line to check what was available for update.

I miss this thingy... and my question is still not answered.

Cheers,

Pascal

On 8/29/21 5:22 PM, Mavridis Philippe wrote:

Hello,

I've never heard about this applet until your e-mail, but after a guess and a quick check I think that the applet should be part of a package called "adept" (Adept is a package management suite). Please check whether you have this package on your system.

-- Mavridis Philippe

Running Debian 11 here. No such package.

On 2021-08-29 9:44 p.m., Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:

On 2021/08/30 7:04:09 AM, Edward wrote:

...

On 8/29/21 5:22 PM, Mavridis Philippe wrote:

...

Hello,

I've never heard about this applet until your e-mail, but after a guess and a quick check I think that the applet should be part of a package called "adept" (Adept is a package management suite). Please check whether you have this package on your system.

-- Mavridis Philippe

Running Debian 11 here. No such package.

Hi Pascal, all, adept was a package previously shipped with TDE. Some years ago, there were some major changes to the underlying API related to package management in Debian and that made adept non functional and likely to require some major rework. After investigating the problem and some attempts at fixing it (+ some other side problems related to adept), it was decided to discontinue shipping adept, which is why now you don't get it anymore.

Having said that, if someone is interested in fixing adept and put forward a working version on TGW, we will be happy to reconsider its inclusion in future versions.

Cheers   Michele

Hi Michele, all,

You answered my question :-)

I was using adept for package management in previous TDE versions.

Thanks a lot,

Pascal

---

tde-users mailing list -- users@trinitydesktop.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@trinitydesktop.org Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskto...