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Mauser wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 2:05 pm This is someone with a lot of information that useful information that might have information you might be helpful in your situation. I highly recommend recording and saving all this information for future reference if ever needed and or other video posts. Please forgive my atrociousness spelling. viewtopic.php?f=94&p=824251&sid=74d1de5 ... 37#p824251

Ironfighter wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:36 am

Mauser wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 2:05 pm This is someone with a lot of information that useful information that might have information you might be helpful in your situation. I highly recommend recording and saving all this information for future reference if ever needed and or other video posts. Please forgive my atrociousness spelling. viewtopic.php?f=94&p=824251&sid=74d1de5 ... 37#p824251

Thank you but could you reload your link please. It is not working for me.

Ironfighter wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 10:17 pm I don't want to sound precocious but I would like machine 1 to look the same as Machine 2 if possible.

asqwerth wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 11:24 pm @Ironfighter

This has nothing to do with themimg. It also does NOT have anything to do with MX PackageInstaller. So your title and original post is misleading.

This appears to be the terminal output that happens when you use MX-UPDATER.

No wonder all us helpers were so confused. We thought you were referring to the look of the graphical interface of MXPI.


Seems to me your first machine is an older point release of MX23, where the apt-notifier icon was set up to update using apt rather than nala. Nala's text output is nicer looking. I am not logged into MX at the moment. Can you right click on the notifer icon in the system tray and check the various options and preferences. Is there a way to change the updater to use nala from these options?

If not, you need to check your $HOME/.config/MX-Linux [not sure of the actual folder name or if I got the case correct] .

There should be a apt-notifier.conf file within. If you open it, you can check for a "use nala" line. If it's set at FALSE, change it to TRUE.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 3:51 am Please edit the post title on your first post. Also.. please don't post screenshots of code output, they cannot be searched. You can post code on the forum like this:

[code]code output here[/code]

Thanks.

Melber wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 4:25 am Uncomment the use_nala line (line 40) in apt-notifier.conf
ie. from

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# use_nala = true

to

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use_nala = true

and save