Recently i replaced my Tower's OS Mint 17.3 KDE4 with Maui Aurora. In Mint KDE, my initial installation of my favourite browser Vivaldi [Snapshot & Stable] back in 2015, successfully placed entries into Mint's Update Manager's Software Sources' Additional Repositories tab. Thereafter Mint reliably automatically updated V for me anytime the V Devs released new versions.
However, with Maui so far, installing V does NOT add any V entries into Maui's Update Manager's Software Sources' Other Software tab, so it won't receive future auto updates. Is this likely to be V's "fault", or Maui's [ie, which Devs should i petition to fix this]?
By default it should create a sourceslist entry in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d called
vivaldi.list.
Does this file exist ?
Is it contents correct e.g.
Code:
deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
If yes. Please run the update manager and refresh the package list (or run
apt-get update)
(30th September 2016, 13:40)leszek Wrote: [ -> ]By default it should create a sourceslist entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d called vivaldi.list.
Does this file exist ?
Is it contents correct e.g.
Code:
deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
If yes. Please run the update manager and refresh the package list (or run apt-get update)
Hi
leszek
No, neither that file, or its necessary sibling for
Vivaldi-Snapshot, existed. Based on your helpful info, & a parallel reply i received in the Vivaldi forum, i seem to have worked around the problem satisfactorily now. Though Maui's
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ was missing both these files [
why???],
vivaldi.list &
vivaldi-snapshot.list , I found an instance of each file* in the same path in one of my Mint 17.3 KDE VMs. After copying said files to the same path destination in Maui, & refreshing Maui's
Update Manager cache, it now "sees" both Vivaldi's, & will i think now offer me future updates. In fact i then tested it, by deliberately installing an
older version of
Vivaldi-Stable from its deb file using
gdebi, then refreshing
Update Manager & happily noting it then offered me the latest version, which i thus installed.
* respective contents:
deb repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
deb repo.vivaldi.com/snapshot/deb/ stable main
Other than the mystery [to me, anyway] of why i needed to do this manually, rather than it happening automatically when i first installed each Vivaldi, i accept that my manual fix was only a once-off, & trust that it will henceforth all behave correctly.
Thank you very much for your help.