stephan-dev
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2 years ago Interesting. After a dist-upgrade (Mint 19.3) I have to re-make my mintupdate settings so that the Terminal style window doesn't close itself at the end. I missed important info that I briefly saw. I tried to look around for a backlog... I just discovered the "information window" (mintupdate GUI menu) that you mention. Indeed, it was not there. I had to do a web search "mintupdate synaptic logs". This page was the 8th hit. I support this feature request, but this is just a quick thank you, because I had never heard of /var/log/apt/term.log and bingo! that's exactly what I needed.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The Synaptic progress detail display sometimes contains information that I would like to have more time to see and absorb, but it scrolls by quickly as the update progresses. In order to review that information, I have to break away from Update Manager and navigate manually to /var/log/,,,
Describe the solution you'd like I would like the Synaptic log lines that were displayed on the screen as the update proceeded to be included in the Information window of Update Manager. (The detail lines during the installation are what I'm looking for, not the download progress details.)
Describe alternatives you've considered Manually navigating to /var/log, remembering which log I want to see (mintupdate.log? nope... dpkg.log? nope... apt/history.log? nope.... apt/term.log? there it is!)
Additional context If Synaptic could be run in a mode that pushed those lines out to stdout, this would work with the plumbing that's already in Update Manager. I could not tell if Synaptic has such an option. If it does not, I suppose the logger class in Update Manager could be enhanced to begin and end tailing a specific log file in order to capture the tailed lines into the mintupdate log. (If there is a strong desire not to include those lines redundantly in mintupdate.log, then a more involved approach might be required.)