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Idea #18128: Synaptic and apt-get can be used at the same time

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #7108: More than one synaptic running.
Written by Cé the 18 Feb 09 at 20:03. Related project: Synaptic package manager. Status: New
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I have the habit of installing software from the command-line via apt-get install when I know the name of the package.

When i don know the packagename exactly, then I open synaptic, find & install the package, and keep synaptic open.

Now I can use apt-get anymore, as the database is locked.

Best regards,
Cé
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Solution #1: synaptic should only lock the database while installing
Written by Cé the 18 Feb 09 at 20:03.
Could synaptic be changed that it only locks the database during the actual install, not during marking or downloading of packages?
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Solution #2: Disconnect package browsing GUIs from the installation/removal engine
Written by Warbo the 19 Feb 09 at 18:29.
Rather than package management applications locking the package manager, they could be able to run at once, talking to a daemon in the background which stores the marked packages and does the installing and removing. Users will not need or want to run multiple daemons, since they shouldn't have to even know that the daemon's there, however multiple package manager instances is an often-encountered, user-visible error/warning.
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Solution #3: Queuing of operations
Written by pengo the 9 Mar 09 at 02:44.
If you're only installing stuff, then queue up the operations. After one finishes installing, the other one can start automatically.
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Solution #4: Finer locking of database
Written by pengo the 9 Mar 09 at 02:50.
Allow finer locks on the database so that operations that don't conflict (like most installing of applications) can both happen simultaneously.

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ohssss wrote on the 22 Feb 09 at 11:46
To view the package information only, the no privilege version of synaptic can be used by tying "synaptic &" in terminal or Alt+F2 . But now the synaptic have to be restarted with gksudo to install the program...


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