Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

[webbie_webb]

Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu 8.04 LT fails to open

any sugestions for this? is there any replacement or substitute for Synaptic?

thanks in advance

:respect:

[Suus]

I had the same problem.

I found the fix mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/113424 by solved my problem.
Although I didn't get the error messages.

[webbie_webb]

:- (

i guess it did not help... sorry.

sometime i can open ands sometime and no...

synaptic package manager its suppose to work fine but yet i get errors and application is not opening then i' m unable to install anything on my system

Any suggestions? i sure would like migrating for this OS

Thanks in advance :cool:

[webbie_webb]

is it better to downgrade into Ubuntu 7.10?

This is ready annoying not to be able to properly administer my system, sorry...

I sure would like to try Ubuntu Studio for professional usage but with all the issues i start to guess i will have to wait at least 2 more years until the system is reliable otherwise i rather stick to mac or win for professional stuffs

Anyway i will keep trying though :cool:

[falko]

Open a terminal and try this:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[webbie_webb]

uhmm i tried that :- ( no work

is there any reliable substitute for this=?

thanks

[falko]

Did you get any error messages?

[dipteshc]

Hi, I have installed WUBI 8.04.1 in my computer. However, synaptic package manager is not opening. Even if I try to run the commad dpkg --configure -a , it gives me the following error message:

dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege

Can someone help? I am having serious trouble upgrading my software repository. Thanks in advance

[ralic]

Even if I try to run the commad dpkg --configure -a , it gives me the following error message:

dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
How about prefixing the command with sudo (for superuser privileges)?
sudo dpkg --configure -a

[dipteshc]

I tried the command. But this is what I got:

dpkg: error processing evolution-exchange (--configure):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
evolution-exchange

Any suggestions on this?? Please bear with my ignorance. It's only been a week since I started using linux.

[falko]

There seems to be something wrong with the package evolution-exchange. I'd try ot uninstall it:
sudo apt-get remove --purge evolution-exchange
and then install it again:
sudo apt-get install evolution-exchange

[dipteshc]

thanks a lot..that fixed the bug