update-manager shouldn't complain that synaptic is running when there are new updates
Bug #43087 reported by
neutrico
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Currently when new updates apear there is 'baloon' in notification area.
It says that you should click on this 'baloon' to update - unfortunately if there is some application such as synaptic running somewhere there is error report that says that user has to shut down synaptic first.
IMHO this is wrong behaviour. I agree that there could be a problem with aptitude or just command line apt-get, but I think that instead of error message update-manager should go to currently running synaptic if is up and running already.
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We could check if apt is locked before showing the notification.
The long term plan is to remove the need for root privileges if you only want to view and plan changes as already done in gnome-app-install. So it should then be possible to run synaptic and update-manager at the same time.