Managing OS updates
Hello,
Happy new year !
An automatic system is implemented in OpenSesame to point out possible updates, and it is certainly very convenient in some contexts. But on my side, I have experimented several situations where it happened to be inappropriate and intrusive. One reason is that in order to make the update, it is necessary to stop the current session and restart OS in Administrator mode. But after restarting in that mode, the prompt for update will come back in an inpredictable way (sometimes yes, sometimes no ...). So if I continue to work in that Administrator mode while waiting for the update prompt, I have to face bad side effects lile sound files not executing properly. So I have to come back to the standard execution mode to continue my work. And the problem restarts from the beginning, waiting for a random prompt for update ...
An obvious solution would be to have the possibility to trigger deliberately an update check, but I could not find that option. Would it be possible ?
Thank you in advance,
Gérard
Comments
Hi @gerhono ,
The updater always starts checking immediately when OpenSesame is started. The reason that it takes so long for the updater to give a message is that
conda, which manages the packages (together withpip), is so slow that it just takes ages for all packages to be checked! This is very annoying. But that's why there's no point in deliberately checking for updates.What you could do, however, is as soon as you get an update message, copy the update script, restart as admin, and then paste the script into the console.
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