UPDATE PACK 4 FEEDBACK THREAD

[clem]

Yes, I compile 1.4 for LMDE today, it should hopefully make it to the repositories tomorrow.

[GeneC]

Clem

How about Mintmenu for XFCE.
Sure would be nice to have that back.

[timber]

Yes, I compile 1.4 for LMDE today, it should hopefully make it to the repositories tomorrow.

Clem and Incoming team,

We thank you very much for your hard work!
UP4 is a whole new look and feel and SO very enjoyable to use!

Being a relative newbie, I've worked very hard to bork things and haven't managed to do so yet. (I would assume that's good news).
I am hoping the folks over at WineHq step up to the bat and smooth out their contribution to Sid so that we can see something polished enough for a future LMDE.
(I've have had some success and seen some shortcomings installing Wine from the Sid repositories) ... but Incoming "Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'".

Thanks for all you do!

[jaycee]

Hey GeneC!
The easiest way to have mintMenu on Xfce is to:
1. Right-click on the panel, select Panel --> Add New Items.
2. Scroll down to XfApplet, and drag it to where you want it placed on the panel.
3. Right-click on XfApplet, select Properties.
4. Scroll down to and select mintMenu.
If another menu was previously in use, right-click it and select Remove.

[cdysthe]

Hi,

Just installed the latest iteration of UP4 (another 450 packages or so). My system is still working well. I was hoping for more Mint look and feel in Gnome Shell, but it's still looking very generic. I guess Cinnamon is getting all the love?

[malpieter]

Hi

I'm getting the following issue when i''m doing a apt-get updated:

W: Failed to fetch http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/mu ... 4/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/mu ... 4/Packages 404 Not Found.

sources.list:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/multimedia/ testing main non-free

Please let me know if i'm doing something wrong

[malpieter]

Also when i try to install mintinstall i get the following error:

sudo aptitude install mintinstall
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mintinstall python-aptdaemon{ab}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
aptdaemon
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 63.9 kB/272 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,479 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-aptdaemon: Depends: python (< 2.7) but 2.7.2-10 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) mintinstall [Not Installed]
2) python-aptdaemon [Not Installed]

but my python -V is 2.6.7

Any advice?

[caliche75]

i can't update because some packages not found,

Err http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found

Err http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free i386 Packages 404 Not Found

W: http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/mu ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found

W: http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/mu ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found

therefore mintupdate is not working

somebody can guide me

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[raidensub]

i can't update because some packages not found,

Err http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found

Err http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free i386 Packages 404 Not Found

W: http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/mu ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found

W: http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/mu ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found

therefore mintupdate is not working

somebody can guide me

¿¿¿??????

Same here. Maybe they updating something.

[zerozero]

the error cleared, updating now

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435 upgraded, 49 newly installed, 3 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 495 MB of archives.
After this operation, 156 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

[ccerghe1]

Updated with yesterday's UP4 refresh, but still unable to install "software-center" from Synaptic, because of broken dependencies:
software-center:
Depends: aptdaemon but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-aptdaemon but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 but it is not installable
Recommends: update-notifier but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: sessioninstaller but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: zeitgeist-core but it is not going to be installed

There is definitely a problem with python-aptdaemon because if I try to install it explicitly, I get this error:
"Could not apply changes! Fix broken packages first."

[GeneC]

Hey GeneC!
The easiest way to have mintMenu on Xfce is to:
1. Right-click on the panel, select Panel --> Add New Items.
2. Scroll down to XfApplet, and drag it to where you want it placed on the panel.
3. Right-click on XfApplet, select Properties.
4. Scroll down to and select mintMenu.
If another menu was previously in use, right-click it and select Remove.

Hi jaycee

Thanks, I had Mintmenu running months ago, but lost it.
Too be fair I am running XFCE tracking SID, but I assume those tracking "testing" and now UP4 will have lost Mintmenu as well.

Mintmenu will not re-install.

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gene@zordon:~$ sudo apt-get install mintmenu
[sudo] password for gene: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mintmenu : Depends: deskbar-applet but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

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gene@zordon:~$ sudo apt-get install deskbar-applet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package deskbar-applet is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'deskbar-applet' has no installation candidate

Deskbar-applet went months ago when Gnome 3 replaced Gnome 2.3
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/deskbar-applet

[clem]

The repositories are now in sync again.

[escolar]

I just have updated the today big update. I cannot check email with Evolution after this update because when I use the check and send button a segmentation fault happens and Evolution crashs.

I edit to add a new problem with this updating: I can't print. After trying to print, the parallel process remains eating 100% CPU without print and I have to kill it, and nothing is printed.

[kmb42vt]

The repositories are now in sync again.

Clem, is Cinnamon 1.4 and/or MATE included in this update? I'm watching the download via "MintUpdate" and I'm not seeing either one. Just wondering as I've been away from the computer for the past few days (ill) so I may have missed something.

[clem]

Not yet.. but we've got MATE 1.2, Cinnamon 1.4 and Firefox 11 all lined up to get in.

[kmb42vt]

Not yet.. but we've got MATE 1.2, Cinnamon 1.4 and Firefox 11 all lined up to get in.

Good deal and thanks for reply. I just finished updating from the "incoming" repos--no problems except the minor niggle that the update replaced my LM12 GRUB with LMDEs...again (quad booting with LM 12 as main OS for now). Did the same thing with the initial UP4 "incoming" update. There was no prompt that asked me to choose where I should install GRUB during the update. Just mentioning.

[rknize]

The latest refresh batch seemed to go fine.

As someone else pointed out, there is some dependency issues surrounding python-aptdaemon. I actually ran into this on Wheezy as part of the dependency hell of trying to upgrade from Squeeze. I think the issue here is that "import" has a stale package in it (0.31) while "main" has 0.43. For other testers: removing "import" from sources.list will make mintinstall and friends installable again.

There are also some broken dependencies surrounding the mint-meta-debian metapackage. mint-meta-codecs still depends on totem-xine. mint-meta-common should be fixed once mintmenu is refreshed and installable again.

[rootchick]

The last update seemed to go well for me too. 403 packages updated without a hitch.

I'm really impressed with Cinnamon. Will it be possible to lock it down for public computers? Currently we use a combination of gconf-editor and sabayon to lock down Gnome 2 so people can't do things like open a terminal, save stuff to the desktop (actually we do that with permissions), and we customize the menu so it only features software we want them to be able to use and nothing we don't. We also tweak the keyboard shortcuts so they can't hit F2 to run an application and so forth.

Thanks LMDE team for all your hard work! I'm looking forward to trying out Cinnamon 1.4 & MATE.

[clem]

Yes, I suppose that would be handy. I guess we could do this simply by having root prefs defining certain locked features. Not a priority with in the Cinnamon project (there's a lot of other things I'd want to see done prior to this) but given time this should definitely make its way into Cinnamon.