Software manager does not work most of the time - no errors

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Re: Software manager does not work most of the time - no err

Post by Brucey99 »

Thanks Vincent, good to see some fixes are in progress.

Do you know if they will fix the issue that people have mentioned of the progress bar getting stuck at a certain point (about 16%)? As this is something I experience quite regularly too.
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Re: Software manager does not work most of the time - no err

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That is probably a symptom of either of the other two issues. I'm not sure if this will be fixed by the improvements being done, but glebihan is doing his best to give us an improved Software Manager and a lot of things are being done. One of these is that interface to the APT back-end (that does the actual installation) has been replaced, hopefully this should improve progress reporting also.

You can see all the recent commits being done by glebihan and Clem here: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintinstall/commits/master
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Re: Software manager does not work most of the time - no err

Post by HappyLinux »

There is also a 3rd problem, but it's with Package Managers other half, the Update Manager. Here's one of the threads about it.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=103740
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