add-apt-repository doesn't seem to work in mx terminal

cybervigilante · 07-19-2018, 07:17 PM

This is annoying since I get bugs that repos would fix. Shutter keeps updating when it shouldn't but I can't add the repo for the version that it is claimed has fixed that.

hydrurga · 07-20-2018, 12:35 PM

Are these PPAs that you're trying to add? If so, those are a Ubuntu (and derived distro) thing, and MX, which is not based on Ubuntu, advises against using them.

https://mxlinux.org/mx-faqs

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/add-ppa-repository

cybervigilante · 07-20-2018, 01:33 PM

Yeah, looks like I'm in the Forbidden Zone. But that still doesn't help me stop Shutter from Constantly downloading updates on every launch. It's a bug I fixed once in Mint but can't seem to fix in MX.

hydrurga · 07-20-2018, 01:50 PM

Perhaps the MX Linux developers may be amenable to adding a package of the latest version to the community repos if you flag it to their attention.

snowday · 07-20-2018, 02:04 PM

You can download any version of Shutter (including the current/latest) from here: http://shutter-project.org/wp-conten...releases/tars/

cybervigilante · 07-20-2018, 02:14 PM

I appear to have the latest version. Since that's pretty old and there are no other bugs my solution was to simply remove the update program. Shutter works fines and I don't need updates.

So I deleted the vgyme.pm program from /usr/share/shutter/resources/system/upload_plugins/upload/ (after backing it up just in case, of course). For some reason it now won't shutdown when run from the terminal unless I pkill it, but it closes fine from the GUI.