Done!NormandC wrote:...But it may be better to leave a comment in the bug report saying the issue is fixed, and provide your FreeCAD info.
Ok so this update business is somewhat off-topic from FreeCAD, but since I'm impacted by it, I might as well show my current Ubuntu System Settings that is NOT giving me updates as I expect. I expect for them either (a) to happen automatically and behind the scenes, or (b) be prompted with a nag dialog box something of the form "You have new packages to update. Do you want to update them now?" or the equivalent, perhaps once per day.
Neither seems to be happening. And what puzzles me is that my settings seem to imply that they should. Here is what I have at present without any fiddling prior to just doing all of the apt-get commands that upgraded the freecad-daily package to the most recent one as indicated above. This is on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
First here is one part of the System Settings for Software & Updates:
Switching to the Updates tab, I see:
, I have added the shortcut of the Update Manager in my Unity Launcher. Every time I boot up my PC, the first thing I do is to click on it to check for updates. But if forget to, it will open automatically when updates are available.
