Re: UPDATE PACK 3 FEEDBACK THREAD (SOLVED)

[mrjoeyman]

Everytime I open my mint updater, it shows that I have 55 updates waiting, but after that it says "system up to date" and I can't update anything. Guess it will let me update when it feels like it is safe?

And I don't even have this in my sources list:

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deb http://linux-mint.froonix.org/ debian main upstream import backport

[zerozero]

mrjoeyman, if your sources.list are still these ones http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 03#p483676 you are perfectly good to go, don't worry about that;
about the pkgs that don't update, it's a different story;
open terminal, do

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and copy the output in here;
we will see what's going on there

[mrjoeyman]

mrjoeyman, if your sources.list are still these ones http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 03#p483676 you are perfectly good to go, don't worry about that;
about the pkgs that don't update, it's a different story;
open terminal, do

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and copy the output in here;
we will see what's going on there

Yes they are still:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main
deb-src http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main

When I get access to my system in the morning I will report the findings..................thanks.

[mrjoeyman]

I read this in a tutorial by Clem about how to upgrade via apt...........

This tutorial provides the necessary information to upgrade mint to the latest version without reinstalling/restoring. For a potentially trouble-free upgrade method see: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2

The various caveats in the above tutorial apply, and this may break your system,

Then it says to do this (already as root, thus no sudo) to upgrade:

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Run 'apt-get update' 
Run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' 

You told me to:

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Are you sure you want me to do that? I am confident that you know what you are doing, but I just wanted to check first in case, in between helping the zillion noobs here, you might have had "one of those moments?"

[zerozero]

mrjoeyman, i appreciate the concerns with my mental sanity, but i still ain't lost it, not this time anyway
that howto you quote is meant for the ubuntu-based ed. and for when you want to upgrade from one release to another;

in LMDE the dist-upgrade is the recommended way to keep your system upto date, so fear not

[mrjoeyman]

LOL ok

Here is the output from the command:

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mrjoeyman@laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for mrjoeyman: 
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing InRelease                              
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian InRelease                  
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates InRelease           
Ign http://liveusb.info all InRelease                                          
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing InRelease                              
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release.gpg [198 B]       
Get:2 http://liveusb.info all Release.gpg [490 B]
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Get:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release [12.1 kB]         
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib TranslationIndex     
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main TranslationIndex        
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free TranslationIndex    
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main i386 Packages   
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free i386 Packages
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib TranslationIndex
Get:4 http://liveusb.info all Release [2,925 B]                      
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main TranslationIndex          
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free TranslationIndex
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing Release.gpg                  
Get:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main i386 Packages [9,896 B]
Get:6 http://liveusb.info all/main Sources [20 B]                              
Get:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream i386 Packages [5,208 B]    
Get:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import i386 Packages [19.4 kB]      
Get:9 http://liveusb.info all/main i386 Packages [1,256 B]                     
Ign http://liveusb.info all/main TranslationIndex                              
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing Release                                
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import TranslationIndex               
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main TranslationIndex                 
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream TranslationIndex   
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex 
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main TranslationIndex        
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free TranslationIndex    
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib Translation-en_US              
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib Translation-en       
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free Translation-en_US   
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free Translation-en      
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main Translation-en  
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://liveusb.info all/main Translation-en_US                   
Ign http://liveusb.info all/main Translation-en                                
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main Translation-en_US                 
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main Translation-en                    
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free Translation-en_US             
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free Translation-en                
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en_US              
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en
Fetched 51.5 kB in 13s (3,758 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  multisystem
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,016 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot/ all/main multisystem all 1.0136 [8,016 kB]
Fetched 8,016 kB in 2min 39s (50.3 kB/s)                                       
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 164331 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace multisystem 1.0134 (using .../multisystem_1.0136_all.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement multisystem ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up multisystem (1.0136) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
mrjoeyman@laptop ~ $ 

As you can see it upgraded the multisystem program. I checked the mint updater again and it still shows 63 updates available, but I can't download them because it says its up to date still (and has a little check mark on the tray icon)

[Pepas]

Sorry for butting in here, but I think if you do:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
then it will upgrade those packages.
(At least, that is my understanding, I have been doing "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade" for years on Debian, Ubuntu, and recently on Linux Mint and LMDE... If I am wrong please enlighten me.)

[mrjoeyman]

Thanks. I will wait for confirmation from Zero before trying that. I hope it works!

[zerozero]

@Pepas and @mrjoeyman, the dist-upgrade command performs already the upgrade in itself:

dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary.

so it's not that; on the other hand, this

1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

tells me that apt doesn't see any pkg held back, and being MU a front-end of apt, i fail to see where it can find those 63 to update and then at the same time says that the system is upto date

- first things, first

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apt-cache policy mintupdate-debian

share with us the output;
then, reboot, open again MU and see if that message is still there;
report back.

[mrjoeyman]

Zero the output from that command is:

mrjoeyman@laptop ~/Desktop $ apt-cache policy mintupdate-debian
mintupdate-debian:
Installed: 1.0.4
Candidate: 1.0.4
Version table:
*** 1.0.4 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

After reboot, it still shows all those updates pending, but reports "up to date"

[proxima_centauri]

* Merged relevant posts from UPDATE PACK 3 FEEDBACK THREAD

[zerozero]

mrjoeyman, i'm puzzled with this: while apt says all'well, MU-debian (an apt frontend finds x pkgs upgradable and doesn't install them ) i need pictures (not that i doubt you, but to try to understand what's going on)

[twa]

Schermata-Terminale-1.png

Schermata-Information - Update Manager.png

Schermata-Terminale.png

zerozero,
just for your info this is my apt-cache policy mintupdate-debian outcome which is the same of mrjoeyman, my update managr that shows systems is updated and
apt-get dist-upgrade showing 1 the foomatic-db-engine kept back..so am OK.
regards

[zerozero]

tks twa, that is what i was expecting to see, but in mrjoeyman's situation something is not playing along

[mrjoeyman]

mrjoeyman, i'm puzzled with this: while apt says all'well, MU-debian (an apt frontend finds x pkgs upgradable and doesn't install them ) i need pictures (not that i doubt you, but to try to understand what's going on)

Here are the screenprints in order, the first being the apt get update dist upgrade:

Screenshot-Terminal-2.png

The apt cache:

Screenshot-Terminal.png

The update manager history:

Screenshot-Information - Update Manager.png

Since I can only use three screenshots per post, see the next post for the screenshot of the refresh of the update manager after rebooting after all of these commands were carried out.....................................

[mrjoeyman]

Here is what I see when I refresh after all of the above commands:

Screenshot-Downloading Package Information-1.png

And after refreshing, I have the "your system is up to date" at the bottom:

Screenshot-Update Manager.png

and then the checkmark is on the updater icon in the tray. Any ideas?

[zerozero]

ahh now i see it, don't worry "downloading file 55 0f 55" means that MU is checking the repos, if you expand the "show for individual files" you will understand a little easier.

[mrjoeyman]

Okay well when I expand the show details option it shows the files being "hit" for each file and then reports "failed" for each. But I will take your word that it is ok So when it is time for files to be updated, then my updater will download them?