Re: [LUG] synaptic

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Chidley wrote:
> On Sunday 23 March 2003 18:20, Neil Stone wrote:
>
>
> > Michael Chidley wrote:
> >
> > > I`ve got a problem with synaptic that i can`t seem to figure out what is
> > > wrong. I`m using RedHat 8 and have apt-rpm and synaptic installed.
> > >
> > > When I click on a package to update in synaptic and then to `proceed`
> > > then the program exits and a error message comes up with `unknown error`.
> > > I have tried re-installing synaptic but the same problem occurs...
> > >
> > > apt-rpm still seems to work as i can update packages on the command line.
> > >
> > > i.e apt-get install xine
> > >
> > > works fine...
> > >
> > > Any ideas
>
> > does apt-get update work ok from command line ?
> >
> > Neil
>
>
> Seems to work fine.....
>
> Mike
>
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how about trying this...

open an xterm
run synaptec from there
when it crashes, see if there are any error messages dumped to the xterm

I have found this works for some applications when they crash.. then 
fizing them is easy ;-)



Neil

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