I used ceni and wireless is fine..I am consistently getting this wicd error below...can someone recommend a fix? Thanks.

root@antiX1:/home/joe# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libpango1.0-0 synaptic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up wicd-daemon (1.7.0+ds1-2) ...
adduser: The user `demo' does not exist.
dpkg: error processing wicd-daemon (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd-gtk:
wicd-gtk depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-2); however:
Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wicd-gtk (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd-curses:
wicd-curses depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-2); however:
Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wicd-curses (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd:
wicd depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-2); however:
Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet.
wicd depends on wicd-gtk (= 1.7.0+ds1-2) | wicd-curses (= 1.7.0+ds1-2) | wicd-cli (= 1.7.0+ds1-2) | wicd-client; however:
Package wicd-gtk is not configured yet.
Package wicd-curses is not configured yet.
Package wicd-cli is not installed.
Package wicd-client is not installed.
Package wicd-gtk which provides wicd-client is not configured yet.
Package wicd-curses which provides wicd-client is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wicd (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
wicd-daemon
wicd-gtk
wicd-curses
wicd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

If you do not need/use wicd, remove it, and its dependencies.

apt-get purge wicd
updatedb

I use wicd, but I haven't gone through all of the documentation yet. If there's a fix, please let me know.

PS I just found
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.mepis.com/index.php/Howto_articles#Ceni"
linktext was:"the Ceni instructions"
====================================
, so I'll test them and uninstall Wicd if I'm successful.

Yep, it worked! purging...

When I try to purge WICD with the command it returns the message that I am not allowed to do it even though it first asked for my password.

When I try to uninstall it from Synaptic it gives exactly the same error I get when whatever package I try to install, namely dependcy problems with WICD deamon etcetera.

How important is WICD that I get an error with every pakage that I try to install?

before trying to purge WICD with the command, Did you enter the command su and enter your root password when the terminal asked for a password? Did you enter your root password instead of your regular user password in Synaptic?

you might need to do
apt-get -f install

and apt-get clean

before

apt-get purge wicd

I constantly get wicd update problems, mostly with testing repo's.

The user demo error can be fixed if you add a user"demo" to the system.

I also get
Package wicd-gtk is not configured yet.
Package wicd-curses is not configured yet.
Package wicd-cli is not configured yet.
Package wicd-client is not installed.

among others.

Though it says wicd-client is not installed, i can run wicd-client.

I can't apt-get purge wicd to work either as I get 6 errors similar to

dpkg: error processing wicd-daemon (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

or

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd-cli:
wicd-cli depends on wicd-dameon (= 1.7.0+dsl-5); however:
Package wicd-dameon is not configured yet.


One can always use ceni.

But on at least one system I prefer wicd as it has connect and disconnect scripting options.

Obviously I am missing something obvious.

Those errors are because the upgrade to wicd-daemon was stopped in the configuration stage because of that demo user (maybe look into /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wicd.conf or /etc/default/wicd for a demo user to remove or simply add again the demo user which I guess is remnant from the live environment).
Then you could run 'dpkg --configure -a' to complete its configuration and then purge it in the sequence. Also maybe purging it through Synaptic could work(?)

The solution for me was to add a"demo" user to my installed version 8.5. Then"apt-get install wicd" as root worked fine. Then I removed the"demo" user. Thanks for the suggestion and description socipolla and others! Now apt-get works without complaint and I can try ceni...