MX Package Installer vs Synaptic

[Jerry3904]

PM says: 1) grey them out, 2) add sentence on top: "Items greyed out have already been installed"

[Adrian]

Here's the last build please give it a try and let me know if you like the changes: https://github.com/AdrianTM/mx-packagei ... 1_i386.deb

A bit different issue, I've noticed that Opera doesn't install, I tried even from command line and I get this:

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Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
this is what you want to do.

  opera 

Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?

Although I added opera security key... mx-packageinstaller also runs "wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -"

Any ideas, suggestions?

[kmathern]

Here's the last build please give it a try and let me know if you like the changes: https://github.com/AdrianTM/mx-packagei ... 1_i386.deb

A bit different issue, I've noticed that Opera doesn't install, I tried even from command line and I get this:

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Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
this is what you want to do.

  opera 

Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?

Although I added opera security key... mx-packageinstaller also runs "wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -"

Any ideas, suggestions?

If you go here: http://deb.opera.com/ they say there are two different keys, a "2013" key and a "2013b" key. The wget command grabs the "2013" key.

There was also this:

For now, the "2013" key above is the one we use, but we may be switching to this one soon: ....

I'm guessing they've switched.

[newkansan]

Thanks, I agree on greying out and adding text to the top stating that greyed out items are already installed.

[Adrian]

How can we use wget to get that one?

[kmathern]

This seems to work:

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wget -qO- http://deb.opera.com/ | tac | grep BEGIN -B999 -m1 | tac | grep END -B999 | apt-key add -

root@mx1:/home/kent# wget -qO- http://deb.opera.com/ | tac | grep BEGIN -B999 -m1 | tac | grep END -B999 | apt-key add -
OK

It adds some Opera keys, the first 3 are expired but the last one is good until July 3rd 2015

root@mx1:/home/kent# apt-key list|grep -i opera -A2 -B2

pub 1024D/6A423791 2006-09-26 [expired: 2009-09-25]
uid Opera Software Archive Automatic Signing Key <hostmaster@opera.com>

pub 1024D/927CCC73 2007-06-04
--

pub 1024D/9D1A0061 2009-08-31 [expired: 2011-01-23]
uid Opera Software Archive Automatic Signing Key 2010 <packager@opera.com>

pub 1024D/B9FBE3CE 2011-01-22
--

pub 1024D/336064B5 2011-11-08 [expired: 2013-01-11]
uid Opera Software Archive Automatic Signing Key 2012 <packager@opera.com>

pub 1024D/09F8ECEF 2009-12-11
--

pub 4096R/A8492E35 2013-07-03 [expires: 2015-07-03]
uid Opera Software Archive Automatic Signing Key 2013b <packager@opera.com>
sub 4096R/08B288D5 2013-07-03 [expires: 2015-07-03]

root@mx1:/home/kent#

If they make changes to the html code at the http://deb.opera.com page, you might need to change the wget command again.

[Adrian]

I'm a bit uncomfortable to scrub the page like that, it can change at any moment.

In any case here's the updated package:
https://github.com/AdrianTM/mx-packagei ... 2_i386.deb

Please test it.

[kmathern]

Opera installs without any errors.

To test the Opera key download, I first ran the `apt-key del opera` command to remove all opera keys (kept repeating it until it gave a gpg: key "opera" not found: eof message)


And I like greyed out entries that indicate that the package is already installed.

[lucky9]

Ditto for grey for the installed items.