I'm having some major problems downloading some packages in Synaptic. The packages concerned are all QGIS (Quantum GIS mapping software) but this issue could potentially apply to anything.
Problem 1:
When I downloaded and installed QGIS on my other PC it downloaded about 40 packages which makes sense.
I have had Ubuntu for a while and I uninstalled a few packages with synaptic. I then restarted the computer and it turns on the screen for a second, then the screen says "no signal imput" and turns off, but the computer is still on.
The packages were for mysql, php5, and xserver. I have no idea what is going on and I REALLY need to use it.
I have three saucy installs with different DEs and all of them have been done using --no-install-recommends on the *-desktop packages, so that I get a fairly basic system.
When I select obsolete packages for removal, or the residual configs for obsolete packages, synaptic locks up completely and I have to kill it using
Code:
sudo killall synaptic
I see that there's been a bug filed for
Synaptic is my prefered tool to deal with packages as its easy to find one into the differents archives. But i also should like to list the packages which are known as "suggest" or "recommend", and there synaptic seems ignoring such request.
Do you guys have something to get around that ? (i want to do some cleaning :))
What is dpkg ?
it’s a package manager for Debian system, and working on other distributions built from Debian system. Used for installing and Removing packages on you system. as same as using synaptic package manager on Ubuntu, but the difference that dpkg using for individual package without installing extra dependencies for this package.
I use Iron so I wanted to uninstall Chromium, so I marked the packages for removal in Synaptic and clicked "go" and I was startled to see Synaptic install Firefox. After that was done, I marked the FF packages for removal and took a closer look. Synaptic wanted to install Epiphany. What the heck?
I ran the Update Manager in Mint 9 and it said I have to fix broken packages before it can do any upgrades.
I then ran Synaptic's 'Fix Broken Packages' command and a line in the status bar said 'Successfully fixed dependency problems'. But Update Manager still says there are broken packages.
If you are using an OS based on the Synaptic Package Manager, you must have noticed by now that when trying to install a new package through Synaptic, it draws in miscellaneous packages that are needed for the program to work. These packages are called dependencies.
This tutorial will show how to install sun java 6 jre for those having problem installing it on Ubuntu 12.04.
OAB-Java is a project hosted on github.com that create a local ‘apt’ repository for Sun Java 6 and/or Oracle Java 7 packages.
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