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unmark all button in update manager

Asked by setreset1

is it only in my version, or is there no button with "unmark all" in the manager? is there a particular reason?
I use ubuntu 7.10 with update manager 1:0.81.
I don't like to mass-install lots of things together, and the quantity of installs to unmark every time makes me simply not update at all.
thanks.

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Henning Eggers (henninge) said : 		#1

I have always installed all the updates that the update-manager found and didn't run into any problems until I tried to update from 7.04 to 8.04 - had to reinstall.

But there really is no reason to avoid high-volume updates. You should just go ahead and install all the updates, after all, they will just keep piling up.... When you have installed all the updates (which might take some time), you might as well go ahead and upgrade to 8.04 (1000+ updates). If you didn't do any nasty hacking on the system or installed much softwar of your own, it should be fine.

This is Ubuntu, not Windows. Trust it ;-)

Henning

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setreset1 (setreset1) said : 		#2

I tried to trust it, but trust fails. the packages intersect, graphics collide, and printer managers are mutually exclusive. language support and openoffice crashed.

"If you didn't ... installed much software of your own" - of course I did, otherwise there is no point in having linux.

so - is there any plan to add an "unmark all" button to the update manager?

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Best Henning Eggers (henninge) said : 		#3

I am not sure if this is the right place for this question then, because launchpad answers is about support, not feature requests to developers.

You do not have to use the update manger to install updates, though. Synaptic or the command line tools like apt-get or dselect will work as well. They are all the same to the system and may be more usable to you.

If you installed software yourself (which, I agree, is perfectly OK), you should know about them and know what happens when updating other parts of the system.

Regards,
Henning

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setreset1 (setreset1) said : 		#4

thank you, you are probably right on both accounts, although using the update manager is easier.

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setreset1 (setreset1) said : 		#5

Thanks Henning Eggers, that solved my question.