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Ron

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Registered: 2018-04-22

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Updated inxi, have issue

I updated inxi due to a thread in another forum. Here's how I did it: First, opened "/etc/inxi.conf" as administrator and change the line B_ALLOW_UPDATE=false  -to-  B_ALLOW_UPDATE=true. Save and close the file. Then ran sudo inxi -U in terminal to update inxi to latest version. Here's the problem, when I look in Synaptic, it says my current version is still 2.3.5-1, but when I run inxi --version in the terminal it comes up to the latest. See screenshot. Why is Synaptic still showing the old version?

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Updated inxi, have issue

Your update bypassed the apt database. Synaptic looks at the database and not at the application.

rolfie

Ron

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Registered: 2018-04-22

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Re: Updated inxi, have issue

Your update bypassed the apt database. Synaptic looks at the database and not at the application.

Well, I have the latest SMPlayer installed via a .deb file, which I don't think is the most current offered by the database, and yet Synaptic shows it as installed. (Version 21.1.0+2.1) This is on Devuan 2.1.

Last edited by Ron (2021-10-18 00:53:34)