Bug 129199

Summary:	[3.1] make full dpkg transcript available
Product:	[Unmaintained] adept	Reporter:	Christine Slotty <christine.slotty>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Rockai <me>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee, echidnaman
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Christine Slotty 2006-06-15 15:43:16 UTC

Version:           1.0 (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9) 
OS:                Linux

Am I wrong or is there no possibility in adept to review the console output after committing changes? At least I haven't found any option to do so. Please excuse this bug report if I'm wrong.

It would be a great enhancement to be able to review the console output after committing changes, as there is a lot of valuable information shown when installing/removing/configuring packages. And if I'm right there is no access to this information at the moment (version 1.0 in Ubuntu 5.10).

Comment 1 Peter Rockai 2006-06-15 15:46:25 UTC

In 2.0 version of adept manager it is there, under view menu. Not in the other adept apps though (installer, updater). I keep this as a wishlist to make it available everywhere (which should have been done right away, probably).

Comment 2 Dan 2006-12-14 16:34:08 UTC

I run Adept Manager 2.1 on KDE 3.5.5 on Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy for x86.  

Summary: Adept Manager has problems installing software that displays license agreements through the console since they require the user to hit OK or accept them (such as sun-java5-jdk 1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1) which isn't possible to limited console accessibility.

Explanation: When I tried to install Sun's Java 5 JDK 1.5.0-08-0ubunutu1 I ran into a problem where the installation would hang.  Clicking "Show Details" button next to the progress bar revealed that a license agreement from Sun had to be approved before continuing.  This message was cleary being displayed to the console but I had no way of selecting OK.  I had to close the program and leave the installation midway through.

(Sidenote: This caused Adept to act strange since apparently the app was still busy, even after a reboot.  "dpkg --configure -a" and "apt-get update" fixed this.  Also, I couldn't remove the partial installation, so I ended up just installing (apt-get install) to finish it up.)

Work-around: I did the update/install from Konsole, agreed to the license, agreed to some other dialog, and everything turned out OK.

Some more access to the console is needed.  I can't modify this bug's status/classification or see it.  This is more than a "wishlist" bug and it's a problem for all versions I'd assume, so please change this bug's status or make this its own bug.

Comment 3 Peter Rockai 2008-03-09 15:45:21 UTC

Comment #2 is, I understand, a different issue from the original report. The license problems have been addressed by implementing a native debconf GUI inside adept itself. As for original report, 3.0 is no longer using embedded konsole, but will instead (probably in .0, maybe in .1) offer a transcript of dpkg and such.

Comment 4 Peter Rockai 2008-09-29 19:53:41 UTC

*** Bug 170836 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jekyll Wu 2013-09-21 04:42:53 UTC

Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years.  Use muon[1] as replacement .

[1] https://launchpad.net/muon