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Sometimes apt-get manages to install stuff that synaptic will fail or refuse to
Posted 07-09-2023 at 05:56 PM by the dsc
I'm not sure it's some configuration I have on synaptic (maybe having the stable-security as the prioritary release? I'm not sure it's set as such, though), or some inherent difference between both (I used to think it was just a GUI frontend to apt-get that would do pretty much exactly the same, once you click to "apply" at least, but it may not be the case), but in some cases synaptic will fail to install some packages, and not really give an explanation why. But the very same package is perfectly installed with "apt-get install," with no hassle or error message of any sort.
It's not a matter of multiple tweaks and having had "broken" package selection at some point. That can make synaptic fail to apply the changes even after you fix them on synaptic itself, but it will then proceed to apply them the next time you click "apply." That's not the case with the packages I was trying to install a few moments ago, which weren't preceded immediately by broken dependency issues.
I was indeed gradually replacing old multimedia.org packages by the default ones, and that can be a slow and tiresome process, with lots of breakage-warnings, forcing one to undo the change markings and try smaller steps, which will involve several instances of having to click apply twice as the first time will give a somewhat buggy error warning, after they've been fixed.
But even then, once everything is solved and no breakage warming was given, it would just operate normally. But for some reason it wasn't the case with VLC and some other package.
Maybe it's just something on my messy configs, though. Perhaps a fresher install that had less tweaks over time would not have this difference for some reason, or maybe just resetting synaptic's settings alone.
It's not a matter of multiple tweaks and having had "broken" package selection at some point. That can make synaptic fail to apply the changes even after you fix them on synaptic itself, but it will then proceed to apply them the next time you click "apply." That's not the case with the packages I was trying to install a few moments ago, which weren't preceded immediately by broken dependency issues.
I was indeed gradually replacing old multimedia.org packages by the default ones, and that can be a slow and tiresome process, with lots of breakage-warnings, forcing one to undo the change markings and try smaller steps, which will involve several instances of having to click apply twice as the first time will give a somewhat buggy error warning, after they've been fixed.
But even then, once everything is solved and no breakage warming was given, it would just operate normally. But for some reason it wasn't the case with VLC and some other package.
Maybe it's just something on my messy configs, though. Perhaps a fresher install that had less tweaks over time would not have this difference for some reason, or maybe just resetting synaptic's settings alone.
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