cannot examine update details after end of updates

[P]

Binary package hint: adept

dapper may 11 2006

If one chooses to watch details of updating process in adept_updater (clicking on show details), details are available only during real update processing.
After updates are done, details are erased by a "updates done - thank you" message covering all inside. The only action left is QUIT.

Can we have the updates details still available and scrollable even after processing ?

[P (p92)]

this is also true when using adept directly. After update processing, even if we select to watch details, adept returns diretly to package list without asking the user.

[mornfall (mornfall)]

For adept, not true: see view->show last dpkg run. For updater, it's way too late and i cannot think of a non-intrusive way. Will keep bug around due to updater.

[Christine (chrishhde)]

Version: 1.0 (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
OS: Linux

Am I wrong or is there no possibility in adept to review the console output after committing changes? At least I haven't found any option to do so. Please excuse this bug report if I'm wrong.

It would be a great enhancement to be able to review the console output after committing changes, as there is a lot of valuable information shown when installing/removing/configuring packages. And if I'm right there is no access to this information at the moment (version 1.0 in Ubuntu 5.10).

[mornfall (mornfall)]

In 2.0 version of adept manager it is there, under view menu. Not in the other adept apps though (installer, updater). I keep this as a wishlist to make it available everywhere (which should have been done right away, probably).

[P (p92)]

it seems that this wish has been forgotten again for edgy :( for adept-updater ...

[Hollingsworthd (hollingsworthd)]

I run Adept Manager 2.1 on KDE 3.5.5 on Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy for x86.

Summary: Adept Manager has problems installing software that displays license agreements through the console since they require the user to hit OK or accept them (such as sun-java5-jdk 1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1) which isn't possible to limited console accessibility.

Explanation: When I tried to install Sun's Java 5 JDK 1.5.0-08-0ubunutu1 I ran into a problem where the installation would hang. Clicking "Show Details" button next to the progress bar revealed that a license agreement from Sun had to be approved before continuing. This message was cleary being displayed to the console but I had no way of selecting OK. I had to close the program and leave the installation midway through.

(Sidenote: This caused Adept to act strange since apparently the app was still busy, even after a reboot. "dpkg --configure -a" and "apt-get update" fixed this. Also, I couldn't remove the partial installation, so I ended up just installing (apt-get install) to finish it up.)

Work-around: I did the update/install from Konsole, agreed to the license, agreed to some other dialog, and everything turned out OK.

Some more access to the console is needed. I can't modify this bug's status/classification or see it. This is more than a "wishlist" bug and it's a problem for all versions I'd assume, so please change this bug's status or make this its own bug.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

"Show last dpkg run" is disabled in Adept in current Feisty.

[eric auvert (eric-auvert-deactivatedaccount)]

The bug's title is still valid.

Regarding Adept, "show last download" and "show last dpkg run" are still disabled in Edgy and current Feisty Beta (at the moment, 2.1.2ubuntu21), whereas they work correctly in Dapper.

- It's an another bug from the one described in the first post,and I can fill an another bug report.

or

- It 's a regression since Dapper, and "wishlist" is not an appropriate importance.

What do you think of it ?

[eric auvert (eric-auvert-deactivatedaccount)]

I withdraw what I said. With 2.1.2ubuntu24, the two components of the menu are enabled.
However, It still lacks in adept_updater.

[mornfall (mornfall)]

Comment #2 is, I understand, a different issue from the original report. The license problems have been addressed by implementing a native debconf GUI inside adept itself. As for original report, 3.0 is no longer using embedded konsole, but will instead (probably in .0, maybe in .1) offer a transcript of dpkg and such.

[mornfall (mornfall)]

*** Bug 170836 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Unfortunately, Adept has been unmaintained by its original authors for several years, and nobody has stepped up to continue its development. (Though the Muon Suite is arguably its spiritual successor) As such, Adept has been removed from releases of Kubuntu from 12.10 onwards, and no additional improvements will be made to the software.

We thank you for reporting this bug all the same, and apologize for taking so long to respond to it.

[adaptee (adaptee)]

Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years. Use muon[1] as replacement .

[1] https://launchpad.net/muon