Thanks! I just had to uninstall the Media Master and Photo Master programs for the second time, and they were a huge update to wait on when being forced down my throat. Not anymore!

Great blog! Would be nice if you could explain your commands a little, so that novices like me can understand a little more.

@Mike
On the other hand it's nice to have a blog with technical details. There's plenty of the rest of the internet you can find the information from with a bit of Google-fu

I have to say, not being able to deselect updates was ultimately baffling and very inconsiderate on Acers side. Thanks for the help, your other posts are just as helpful, if not more. Keep up the good work because I myself am not a savy Linux user.

Once again, you've hit the 'nail on the head'.
Just enough info. to explain the mod and it's results...if I need further info. I can search it through on of the many user groups...

thank you

An awesome tip (as usual)! Thank you! Acer should pay you.

My Network Manager stopped working (nothing happens when you click it, wifi and LAN is dead). I restored the system and suspect one of the updates was the cause. Any clue which update it might be? My best guess: not install any Network Manager updates.

Thoughts?

Excellent - thanks for all the useful advice!

Just saw Francis Tapon's question.... I struggled with this for ages. There was one 10-page forum thread which was useful, but for me it boiled down to the fact that I'd selected "autohide" on the panel preferences. That was enough to stop the network manager working.

If that doesn't work, try running nm-applet on the command line and pasting the error into Google...

after deselecting updates on live update:

i tried manually selecting the updates i want but after selecting and trying to update it is not successful. It gives me this error:

< HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
< Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:32:50 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
< Connection: close
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<
* transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
* Closing connection #0
* Transferred a partial file
curl told us 18
download_file return -1


what am i doing wrong?

May be you need to type sudo yum clean all ?

I downloaded from acer.com the game 'simultrans.sh.zip', then I followed the instructions and installed it (decompressing the zip and double click on the '.sh' file and so).

After giving it a try, I decided that I don't liked the game, so I uninstalled it, but instead of using 'Live Update -> History -> Remove' to do that (as per the Acer uninstall guide directions) I was too clever to my good and used the 'System -> Add/Remove Software' route instead.

As result, the game got uninstalled, yes, but when I go to 'Live Update -> History' it still appears listed here. If I select it and click on 'Remove' I got an error message (and the simutrans thing continue to be listed in Live Update History).

I suppose that the 'bad' uninstall procedure has confused Live Update to think that the game is still installed, so when LU try to 're-remove' it an error happens.

I have tried to reinstall the game (in order to do after that a 'good' uninstall to fix the things), but when double clicking on the simultrans.sh file it say that the game is 'already installed' (it is not).

How could I fix Live Update to get rid of his 'confusion'?

I try to make non critical the acer communication suite, as since upgraded it, will not work (no mail, no calender etc). The hint didn't work, all my updated history still is labeled "critical".

I don't know if I have copied the above mentioned command correctly (sudo sed 's/Critical/00000AA1/;s/Optional/00000AA1/' -i.bak /usr/bin/onlineupdate, all these are zeros and it is actually a "'" before s?) And I wonder, why after sudo I am not required to type my password?
Nikos, Greece

Macles, you have come through yet again. I've followed your instructions for a dozen procedures and every single one worked without a hitch. Thanks from yet anther Linux newbie!

I too get the message that anonymous of dec 28 got;-

after deselecting updates on live update:

i tried manually selecting the updates i want but after selecting and trying to update it is not successful. It gives me this error:

< HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
< Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:32:50 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
< Connection: close
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<
* transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
* Closing connection #0
* Transferred a partial file
curl told us 18
download_file return -1

sudo yum clean all had no effect.

online-update.conf reads;-

#Protocal
Protocal = http
#server IP address Or DNS
IP_address = ftp.linpus.com
#User name
Name =
#Password
Password =
#Down update list file path
Http_path = /ACER/AspireOne/v1.0.9/
Ftp_path =

Any help woul be really appreciated. Online update suggests several updates but fails to download.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,good blog...the only real smart people around!
I just try the "sudo sed 's/Critical/00000AA1/;s/Optional/00000AA1/' -i.bak /usr/bin/onlineupdate

to untick the optional / critical...
but nothing happened????

Any solution ??

Thanks in advance

i have no idea how to use the above code thing.
could someone please explain?
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