On 2016/10/13 05:15 AM, Michael . wrote:
> Well it seems the mailing list isn't working. I sent the above message 5 days ago and never received a reply back via
> email. I thought I'd check the web archive and lo and behold there is a reply (thanks Michele) but I never received it.
> This is the main reason I use forums, mailing lists and clunky and often fail at simple things.
>
> @Michele I thought I'd give it a go, and thus asked the question, because the replacements (packagekit etc.) for
> update-notifier and update-manager are just short of useless. I am able to install and use update-notifier and
> update-manager successfully in GTK based DEs and even update-notifier-kde in KDE but have not found anything suitable
> for Trinity. Do you have any recommendations?
>
> On 8 October 2016 at 17:33, Michael . <keltoiboy@... <mailto:keltoiboy@...>> wrote:
>
> I am trying to install adept (from etch) on TDE but it keeps telling me that the dependency of kdelibs4c2a is
> uninstalable. I would like to find out that the TDE equivalent for this package is so I can change the dependency in
> the control file because I am going to try to rebuild the adept packages in stretch and sid.
>
> Cheers.
> Michael.
>
>
Hi Michael,
just to add to what Slavek and E. already said, for R14.1 we have decided to drop adept and replace it with some other
application that do a similar job.
Adept is badly broken and continuous changes to apt have made it unworthy keeping patching it up. Better to switch to
some sort of supported applications available in gpl or higher.
One main point for the replacement for update-notifier, but the idea or using a cron job and a small script (thanks
Nikolaus!) sounds like a good temporary solution ;-)
Cheers
Michele
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