topic title: My Synaptic
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#1
Hi!

I tried to open synaptic package manager by
Application>Application>System>Package Management>Synaptic Package Manager
It fails to open when I clicked on it.

I am able to open it though by
sux
password
gksu synaptic
It would be nice if I am able to use that feature too.

I notice I also can't open some things in like in the Control Panel.

For example: Hardware, Set Screen Resolution. When I click on it, it asks for root password but after giving my password, nothing happens too. It gives a suggestion though that I can use grandr in terminal and then I am able to open.

Thank you in advance for your time and help! __{{emoticon}}__

nujinini
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
Maybe somethings haven't installed correctly.

Open a terminal and type:

su
(your root paswword)
apt-get update
apt-get -f install

Let us know if there are any messages.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
Did you do a md5sum check of your downloaded iso? Or did you just download and burn in Windows?
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#4
rokytnji wrote:Did you do a md5sum check of your downloaded iso? Or did you just download and burn in Windows?
Uh oh...The first ISO I got was downloaded using XP and burned in same machine. The one that can't be detected, if you might still remember.

My second download and burned ISO was done in my laptop in Mint 7. I was not able to make a md5sum since when I tried to install, everything seemed to work fine.

I'll check and get back in a while!
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#5
I was not able to make a md5sum
Why Not?

Wherever you have the downloaded AntiX iso in Mint. You can open a Terminal and cd to that location. then just type in md5sum antiX blah blah blah
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#6
It's a good burn __{{emoticon}}__

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root@anti-x 8:/home/jun# md5sum '/mnt/sda3/Everything ISO/antiX-M8.2.iso' 
168fe2abd2b772cd31b72ff558ec9b84  /mnt/sda3/Everything ISO/antiX-M8.2.iso
root@anti-x 8:/home/jun#
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#7
Hmmm.

I am in fluxbox. Let me look at my menu for icewm.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#8
This is from my /usr/share/menu/synaptic . But I run 8.5 instead of 8.2.

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?package(synaptic):needs="X11" \
  section="Applications/System/Package Management" \
  title="Synaptic Package Manager" \
  icon="/usr/share/synaptic/pixmaps/synaptic_32x32.xpm"\
  command="/usr/bin/su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic"
This is what my menu entry uses to open sysnaptic in 8.5.
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#9
rokytnji wrote:
I was not able to make a md5sum
Why Not?

Wherever you have the downloaded AntiX iso in Mint. You can open a Terminal and cd to that location. then just type in md5sum antiX blah blah blah
I think I just didn't get used to checking md5sum when I started downloading and burning ISOs of linux distros when I started to learn.

Now I realize it is important. __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#10
rokytnji wrote:This is from my /usr/share/menu/synaptic . But I run 8.5 instead of 8.2.

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?package(synaptic):needs="X11" \
  section="Applications/System/Package Management" \
  title="Synaptic Package Manager" \
  icon="/usr/share/synaptic/pixmaps/synaptic_32x32.xpm"\
  command="/usr/bin/su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic"
This is what my menu entry uses to open sysnaptic in 8.5.
Hi rok,

Here's my output. fwiw __{{emoticon}}__

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?package(synaptic):needs="X11" \
  section="Applications/System/Package Management" \
  title="Synaptic Package Manager" \
  icon="/usr/share/synaptic/pixmaps/synaptic_32x32.xpm"\
  command="/usr/bin/su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic"
Posts: 1,228
secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#11
You don't need to be root to run gksu. If you want to try, hit Super+Space bar (Super is the Windows key) then type gksu synaptic and 'Enter' (it will ask for the password then).
If you want to reinstall to see if it makes any difference:

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apt-get install --reinstall menu synaptic
Also just for cleaning up purposes you may delete any reference to update-menus in ~/.icewm/startup.
Did you try the 8.5 live-cd? Maybe it solves some of your problems (current and future).
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#12
hello secipolla,

I tried to Super+Space bar but nothing happens,

However in the terminal, I enter gksu as ordinary user> a dialog box pops up (Run Program) and then I typed


apt-get install --reinstall menu synaptic

Hit> OK

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jun@anti-x 8:~$ gksu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  synaptic: Depends: libapt-inst-libc6.7-6-1.1
            Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6
E: Broken packages

root@anti-x 8:/home/jun# apt-get install libapt-inst-libc6.7-6-1.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting apt-utils instead of libapt-inst-libc6.7-6-1.1
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libapr1 libgnome2-perl libcwidget3 libgnome2-vfs-perl libept0
  libboost-iostreams1.40.0 libxapian15 liblog4cxx10 libaprutil1
  libgnome2-canvas-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apt apt-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libboost-iostreams1.40.0 libdb4.8 libept0
  liblog4cxx10 libuuid1
Suggested packages:
  apt-doc python-apt
Recommended packages:
  uuid-runtime
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aptitude synaptic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libapr1 libaprutil1 libboost-iostreams1.40.0 libdb4.8 liblog4cxx10
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-utils libept0 libuuid1
4 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 2 to remove and 789 not upgraded.
Need to get 3685kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.9MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  libboost-iostreams1.40.0
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libdb4.8 4.8.26-1 [682kB]
Err ftp://ftp.mepis.com mepis-8.0/main libboost-iostreams1.40.0 1.40.0-2
  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.mepis.com'
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main apt-utils 0.7.25.3 [224kB]         
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libept0 0.5.30 [201kB]             
Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main apt 0.7.25.3 [1751kB]              
Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libuuid1 2.16.2-0 [57.2kB]         
Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libapr1 1.4.2-3 [84.4kB]           
Get:7 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libaprutil1 1.3.9+dfsg-3 [85.1kB]  
Get:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1.1 [561kB]    
Fetched 3645kB in 44s (81.2kB/s)                                               
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/pool/main/b/boost1.40/libboost-iostreams1.40.0_1.40.0-2_i386.deb  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.mepis.com'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

root@anti-x 8:/home/jun# apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable Release.gpg                                
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg                     
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_US          
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US       
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable Release.gpg                        
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable/main Translation-en_US             
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg                       
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Translation-en_US                     
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Translation-en_US                  
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Translation-en_US                 
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg                               
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Translation-en_US                    
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US      
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release                         
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en_US            
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable Release                            
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_US                 
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US                
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable Release                                  
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release                                   
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex         
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages/DiffIndex                    
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release                         
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages/DiffIndex                 
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex                
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex                 
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex              
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex             
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages                            
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex    
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex   
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable/main Packages/DiffIndex          
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages                         
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages                   
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages                          
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages                
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex           
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
Err ftp://ftp.mepis.com mepis-8.0 Release.gpg          
  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.mepis.com'
Err ftp://ftp.mepis.com mepis-8.0/main Translation-en_US
  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.mepis.com'
Reading package lists... Done    
W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/dists/mepis-8.0/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.mepis.com'

W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/dists/mepis-8.0/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.mepis.com'

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Thank you!
Posts: 1,228
secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#13
Sorry nujinini. antiX 8.2 has the MEPIS repos enabled and unless someone really wants them and knows what to do (like if someone wants to have only the Lenny - Debian stable - repos enabled and also the MEPIS ones so he can install some tweaked apps and knows how to do it without breaking the system) they're a source of trouble. Besides that, most of us here are running 8.5 and up-to-date so it's difficult to give you support.
anticapitalista posted recently a how-to for a guy that wanted to know how to upgrade from 8.2 to 8.5. But if you can try and see if 8.5 works in your computer, that's my advice for now.
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#14
secipolla wrote:Sorry nujinini. antiX 8.2 has the MEPIS repos enabled and unless someone really wants them and knows what to do (like if someone wants to have only the Lenny - Debian stable - repos enabled and also the MEPIS ones so he can install some tweaked apps and knows how to do it without breaking the system) they're a source of trouble. Besides that, most of us here are running 8.5 and up-to-date so it's difficult to give you support.
anticapitalista posted recently a how-to for a guy that wanted to know how to upgrade from 8.2 to 8.5. But if you can try and see if 8.5 works in your computer, that's my advice for now.
Ohhh...

Thank you!

I will be happy to upgrade from 8.2 to 8.5. The only concern that's keeping me back is that I am trying to find a distro that can allow me to control brightness of screen in my laptop. Eyes can't take it. __{{emoticon}}__

But then again, if I can't get much support in 8.2, I might as well go for 8.5. And besides, I'm beggining to enjoy this distro as well as the forums. It's not as easy to find people who will be willing to teach and share.

__{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#15
When I suggested you try 8.2 . It was because of your stated kernel requirements at LFO. I agree that you might be mistaken about kernel requirements. The AntiX kernel is custom built by Warren (at least that is my idea of how AntiX works) so no 2 kernels are equal.

Edit: and speaking for myself. I have gone through many reinstalls of AntiX. Learning as I go. The reinstalls were my bad/fault usually.

Whats nice. I learned how to do a install with a separate /home partition. which meant on any later reinstall. I would pretty much have my saved changes in place except for certain apps like spyke that install to / partition.