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Package manager does not sync between computers

Asked by Invincicble Mutant

It is not really intuitive how synchronising between computers works. I have clicked on the menu item, nothing seems to happen, no indicator, progress bar, and status. I can only see my local machine in the computer list, rather all computers i have signed up with the same SSO id.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you have a lot of systems I suggest you use apt-cacher and make a repo on your LAN. You can then download the packages once to the system, then the others can update off that.This is similar to a WSUS.

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Invincicble Mutant (ngkengyap) said : 		#2

As per description on the package manager, it does not do synchronisation of packages across computers. It seems to just cache packages before going on Internet.

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

You mean oneconf and software-center which only lists local computer.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/74526/how-to-use-the-sync-between-computers-in-software-center

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Invincicble Mutant (ngkengyap) said : 		#4

Yes. Exactly that.

I think it is less intuitive. For instance, i have indicator-weather installed on one machine, but it is not synced over to another. It is not the purpose of this?

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

Please consider to report a bug when the behaviour isn't as expected. Thank you.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs