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upgrades: Initial user experience

At the hackathon, I sat next to a beginner user as he set up a VM with the stable virtualbox image. We observed the following:

  • apt cache is not updated right away, even when clicking the manual update button. It only updated with the apt daily timer.
  • backports is not enabled right away, until the freedombox-setup-repositories timer runs.

Proposals:

  • Manual update should allow updating freedombox package (#1638 (closed)).
  • Manual update should also update the apt cache.
  • When manual update is run, consider performing all of the steps under "Manual Updates from Terminal" on https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Upgrades to fix common problems.
    • APT::Fix-Broken option may help.
  • Enable backports during initial setup.
  • Consider running an update during initial setup.
Edited by Sunil Mohan Adapa