[495] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Tue Sep 16 16:40:51 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:40:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, William Cattey wrote:
> 3. Unfamiliar warning messages
>
> After the Athena install script ran to completion, the Software Updater
> applet ran and alerted me to the important message:
>
> apt-file update needed
>
> You may need to update or create the apt-file cache.
> Running this command likely needs an active internet connection.
>
> I guess everybody knows this means that they have to run the command
> apt-file update
> and that it's a perfectly reasonable command to run.
I've used Ubuntu for years, and I've never seen this warning message, so
it's unfamiliar to me too.
Ubuntu also doesn't require the apt-file package (in fact, I only just
installed apt-file manually on one of my machines today for unrelated
reasons), so I'm not sure what this message means.
Maybe Athena 10 causes apt-file to be installed, and it's complaining
because it's installed but not updated? (When I install manually, I
always want to do "apt-file update" anyway, because that's why I installed
it to begin with.)
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
