Thread: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)
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2010-08-18 , 13:26
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#331
Originally Posted by mtran66 View Post
The app hangs at "updating catalogs" for me

I'm currently connected via edge/2g. the normal app manager works fine.

It doesn't appear to be doing anything either. I ran conky and there is no download/upload and the cpu is minimal
It's probably waiting a reply from some repo which doesn't respond. It should eventually timeout and the log should show what repository it was.

Originally Posted by rantom View Post
I'd have a feature suggestions for future versions.

1. Show in the application list with different colors, that what version of the app is available (meaning -testing and -devel).
2. While installing user could choose which version to install. I for one don't know now which version I'm running of Pidgin Protocols Plugin, since the decsription said it was from -devel/-testing.
There are some technical difficulties related to that.
First, fapman only keeps record of the latest version of every package available (since that's what apt-get normally installs anyway when asked). Changing that would require a lot of work.
Second, it's possible to tell apt-get to install a specific version of a package but the dependencies would still get pulled from whatever repo that has the latest versions of them. Could lead to problems.

Multiple repositories are shown for packages that have the same version of them available in all of the listed repositories. It also shows you the version number, you know...

If you don't want to install from a certain repository, then you'll have to disable it.

Originally Posted by medri View Post
since I installed fap I couldn't update any programm.
For this reason I uninstalled it again. Now I cannot upgrade any program with the built-in appmanager. And I can't install fapman either...
It's likely that there are broken packages/dependencies in your system. Running apt-get from command line should reveal those.
 

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