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Howto enable "Mark All Upgrades" in Synaptic
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:11 pm
by arcorreia
It's quite simple, just do the following.
Open a terminal and type:
gksu gedit /etc/linuxmint/adjustments/10-mintsystem-synaptic.overwrite
Change the line:
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/synaptic.glade /usr/share/synaptic/glade/window_main.glade
to:
#/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/synaptic.glade /usr/share/synaptic/glade/window_main.glade
Save the file and exit.
Now go into synaptic, and find the package synaptic. Right-click on it and choose re-install, apply the change and after finished exit synaptic.
Launch again synaptic and the missing "Mark All Upgrades" will be back.
Hope this will help.
Re: Howto enable "Mark All Upgrades" in Synaptic
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:48 pm
by zerozero
actually that is not the correct way of doing it
because your "fix" will be overwritten by updates.
check this topic
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=200&t=70449
Re: Howto enable "Mark All Upgrades" in Synaptic
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:39 am
by arcorreia
You are absolutely right, my fix vanishes with a mintsystem update.
The correct way is the one by Roken.
Roken wrote:OK - here's the fix.
If you haven't already (or if you've rebooted) reinstall synaptic.
Now, before you reboot open a terminal and:
sudo gedit /etc/linuxmint/adjustments/10-mintsystem-synaptic.preserve
This will create a new text file. Add the following two lines to the file:
/usr/share/synaptic/glade/window_main.glade
/usr/share/synaptic/gtkbuilder/window_main.ui
Save. Now your "Mark All Upgrades" button should be back and surviving reboots.
To revert to default mint behaviour:
sudo rm /etc/linuxmint/adjustments/10-mintsystem-synaptic.preserve
This is the correct way to disable the mintsystem change to synaptic (based on examination of the mintsystem script) and should survive updates in the future.
Thanks zerozero for pointing us in the right direction.
Re: Howto enable "Mark All Upgrades" in Synaptic
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:35 am
by MALsPa
arcorreia wrote:
You are absolutely right, my fix vanishes with a mintsystem update.
The correct way is the one by Roken.
Roken wrote:OK - here's the fix.
If you haven't already (or if you've rebooted) reinstall synaptic.
Now, before you reboot open a terminal and:
sudo gedit /etc/linuxmint/adjustments/10-mintsystem-synaptic.preserve
This will create a new text file. Add the following two lines to the file:
/usr/share/synaptic/glade/window_main.glade
/usr/share/synaptic/gtkbuilder/window_main.ui
Save. Now your "Mark All Upgrades" button should be back and surviving reboots.
To revert to default mint behaviour:
sudo rm /etc/linuxmint/adjustments/10-mintsystem-synaptic.preserve
This is the correct way to disable the mintsystem change to synaptic (based on examination of the mintsystem script) and should survive updates in the future.
Thanks zerozero for pointing us in the right direction.
Thanks, zerozero and arcorreia, for posting this -- I'd missed the fix posted earlier by Roken. Looks like this solves one of my pet peeves about Linux Mint.
Re: Howto enable "Mark All Upgrades" in Synaptic
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:39 pm
by zerozero
for completeness i should add that the synaptic patch makes sense in the main edition if we follow the rationale Clem uses for the updates in MU; furthermore it would make no sense to have 2 update tools with different defaults.
if we accept the idea of ranking the updates by levels and disable the ones we believe dangerous (and the feedback here in the forum is that users accept and use that policy) then that patch makes sense.
in lmde it's the other way around;
finally we got rid of those levels
http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=201&t=67561 (tough fight
but Clem listened to us)
then we got the new MU-debian
http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph ... w=viewpoll (adapted finally to lmde's reality)
in this context, yes, the synaptic patch
doesn't make sense and Clem agrees
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/959865
(feel free to add your "this bug affects me too"