Substitutium of Mint Update

[Bergoglio]

Hi,

I uninstalled Mint Update (with purge) and installed Discover, but I don't know how to have automatic check of avaliable updates.
Can You help me ?

Thanks

[leszek]

It should be enabled by default in discover. Just make sure to also have plasma-discover-updater installed aswell.

If you don't have notifications make sure in systemsettings -> notifications that under discover the notifications for updates is activated.

Plasma-Discover-Updater also provides a plasmoid widget that you can activate in your system tray settings or add to the panel as new widget. I think this is necessary to get the notifications successfully.

[Bergoglio]

Hi Leszek,

all the passages that You wrote are applied.
The problem is that Discover don't search automatically new updates, so I must do manually in a terminal (Konsole) sudo apt-get update than, after this, Discover shows updates (also in the system tray). It seems that Discover doesn't search updates without a manual work.

[fanisatt]

I have not seen any sign that there are any updates to take for a long time (but there was a sign during my first days in MAUI) !!
Reading now to this issue I checked for updates (as usual) with update manager . My system was ok today - no updates ! (I had taken updates via update manager yesterday.)
But...after this I immediately checked with Discover for updates and there were 8 updates !! I took them....
Anyway , it seems to me that something is not ok here.
Are the updates we take via mint-update different from those we take via discover ?
Perhaps there is a need for a unified user reminder process .

[leszek]

Yes there are differences. We recommend using mintupdate to see all updates.
Synaptic might only show updates which don't install or remove other packages.
Discover does show them however.

[fanisatt]

Yes there are differences. We recommend using mintupdate to see all updates.
Synaptic might only show updates which don't install or remove other packages.
Discover does show them however.

Thank you leszek ! I had not realize it since now !
It's ok now !

[fanisatt]

Sorry , sorry I made a serious mistake before !
First I checked for updates with the update manager (mint update) and my system was ok (no updates) and after this I immediately recheck with discover and I found eight updates.
That's all.,....!

[starbuck]

So is it okay now or you still wonder why Discover shows 8 updates?

[fanisatt]

So is it okay now or you still wonder why Discover shows 8 updates?

I still wonder !!! The repositories are the same....

[starbuck]

What are these updates? Package list would be nice to get an idea.