zzypty

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Hi!

Whenever I attempt to change the preferences in Synaptic, it stops responding.

I tried running Synaptic from the command line. When it became unresponsive, I checked the command line for any errors. This is the error it gave -
I am trying to change the preference in my connection settings from the option for 'connecting through a proxy server' to 'direct connection to the internet'. Is there any way to change these settings from command-line?

I am aware that this is not critical, as I could use the command-line update command -
But, I find the synaptic packet manager convenient and would like to get it to work.

Thank you

Simon Bridge

IIRC: you revers the usual procedure to set up opt-get to work behind a proxy...

rename: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy

you may need to:

export http_proxy=""

zzypty

Thanks

I am not behind a proxy. I was initially, but now I wish to connect directly to the internet. Since there is no proxy-setting required, I do not need to export http_proxy (or ftp_proxy). However, Synaptic has some different settings (or so it seems) which is causing the problem.

I tried searching for the file - /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy, but it does not exist.

Thanks
Kedar

Simon Bridge

synaptic is a front-end for apt-get.
the idea is to reverse what you did to get synaptic to work behind the proxy right.l

But your troubel is that when you try to change back from synaptic > Settings-> Preference -> Network, it hangs. Looks like this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ic/+bug/298389

This means editing the config files and resetting environment variables.
http://blog.mypapit.net/2006/02/how-...untudebian.htm

You used to have a proxy, which means you used to have proxy settings, which you report you have been unable to remove.

But lets check:

echo $http_proxy

zzypty

Hi!

This is expected, because when I update/upgrade from command line, I do not have any problems.

However, the user-interface (synaptic) seems to have some different settings for network. This is set through
Settings --> Preferences --> Network --> settings

I wish to change these settings from the command line. If I attempt to change them through Synaptic itself, I get the above mentioned error.

Thanks for being patient and sorry if I'm not being able to express my problem clearly,
Kedar

Simon Bridge

Ok - you can get updates without synaptic.
This look very much like bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ic/+bug/298389
... mentioned before. Did you read that report?

One user reports that resetting gnome to defaults did the trick: that involved removing
.gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity
... from the home directory.

I don't see anything explicitly synaptic-related in there.
I also looked for apt, aptitude, apt-get, and update manager. Nothing promising.

Personally, I'd try removing and reinstalling synaptic using aptitude.

I think you need to answer to the bug report with your error message about gtk buttons, and what happens with synaptic reinstall.