I believe I've screwed up?

newbeeman · 06-05-2008, 08:28 PM

After a recent upgrade to 8.04 I have 'lost' Synaptic and Add/Remove. When selected the load icon lights, rotates for a few minutes then disappears without loading the program. Of course this means I cannot install/uninstall anything, even updates don't work.
Have read all I can find, but nothing works on this problem.
Can I 'unload' back to 7.1 as that worked fine?

MS3FGX · 06-05-2008, 08:29 PM

Have you tried starting them from the terminal, or better yet, just using apt from the command line?

stress_junkie · 06-05-2008, 08:31 PM

IMO never upgrade if you can install from scratch.

The 8.04 release uses a package manager named Adept by default. Look for that in the system menu. You can use that to install Synaptic.

If you cannot find Adept in the menus then open a terminal window and run sudo adept.

Code:

sudo adept

If that doesn't work then at least you should see some informative messages saying why Adept isn't running.

newbeeman · 06-05-2008, 08:31 PM

Yep, tried a number of different methods nothing works. It'sa a lot deeper than I can figure.

newbeeman · 06-05-2008, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stress_junkie

IMO never upgrade if you can install from scratch.

The 8.04 release uses a package manager named Adept by default. Look for that in the system menu. You can use that to install Synaptic.

If you cannot find Adept in the menus then open a terminal window and run sudo adept.

Code:

sudo adept

If that doesn't work then at least you should see some informative messages saying why Adept isn't running.

Ran that "Unable to resolve host"
"Command not found"

syg00 · 06-05-2008, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newbeeman

Can I 'unload' back to 7.1 as that worked fine?

I've bounced back and forth between 7.10 and 8.04 - as clean installs.
This works as I have a separate /home partition. Works a treat.

Larry Webb · 06-05-2008, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

I've bounced back and forth between 7.10 and 8.04 - as clean installs.
This works as I have a separate /home partition. Works a treat.

I can believe you, it seems most of the problems are occurring North of the Equator.