Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

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:

 

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.

 

:- (

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

 

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

 

Open a terminal and try this:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

 

uhmm i tried that :- ( no work

is there any reliable substitute for this=?

thanks

 

Did you get any error messages?

 

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

 

How about prefixing the command with sudo (for superuser privileges)?

Code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

 

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.

 

There seems to be something wrong with the package evolution-exchange. I'd try ot uninstall it:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge evolution-exchange

and then install it again:

Code:

sudo apt-get install evolution-exchange

 

thanks a lot..that fixed the bug