[Solved] Maui Linux Software Sources for Vivaldi.

[kdemeoz]

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]?

[leszek]

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)

[kdemeoz]

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.