installing Synaptic

fakie_flip · 10-02-2005, 09:18 AM

How can I get Synaptic in Linspire? I know it can be done.

Code:

CHRIS:~# apt-get install synaptic
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package synaptic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package synaptic has no installation candidate
CHRIS:~# sudo apt-get install synaptic
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package synaptic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package synaptic has no installation candidate
CHRIS:~#

Code:

CHRIS:/tmp# tar -xf synaptic-0.57.tar
CHRIS:/tmp# ls
gaimBMQdmm       gconfd-root      mcop-root       synaptic-0.57.tar
gaimcAcXrW       hsperfdata_root  orbit-root      version.inf
gaimjKLzru.html  kde-root         ssh-LMHAUx5014
gaim_root.0      ksocket-root     synaptic-0.57
CHRIS:/tmp# cd synaptic-0.57
CHRIS:/tmp/synaptic-0.57# ls
ABOUT-NLS     data                 intltool-update.in  README
acinclude.m4  depcomp              Makefile.am         README.debtags
aclocal.m4    doc                  Makefile.in         README.supported
AUTHORS       FAQ                  man                 README.tasks
ChangeLog     gtk                  missing             synaptic.spec
common        help                 mkinstalldirs       TODO
config.h.in   INSTALL              NEWS                TRANSLATORS
configure     install-sh           omf.make            xmldocs.make
configure.in  intltool-extract.in  pixmaps
COPYING       intltool-merge.in    po
CHRIS:/tmp/synaptic-0.57# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
CHRIS:/tmp/synaptic-0.57# apt-get g++
E: Invalid operation g++
CHRIS:/tmp/synaptic-0.57# apt-get install g++
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package g
CHRIS:/tmp/synaptic-0.57# apt-get install gcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package gcc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package gcc has no installation candidate
CHRIS:/tmp/synaptic-0.57#

CloudyWizzard · 10-02-2005, 09:31 AM

You will need to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and remove the # that's infront of the 2 repositories (they look like #deb http://url-to-repositories).
Then save and exit the editor.

now run "apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic"

That will update the repositories from Debian and install synaptic.

Be aware though that APT (and Synaptic) are not officially supported installation methods in Linspire and they might cause trouble on Linspire.

fakie_flip · 10-02-2005, 09:38 AM

How can I know which packages from those two debian repos in sources.list will and will not break my system in Linspire? I made the changes to sources.list with Kate. How do I open Synaptic? I got two errors. Look at the bottom of this.

Code:

CHRIS:/etc/apt# kate sources.list
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection::KActionCollection( QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance )
CHRIS:/etc/apt# apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic
Get:1 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Packages
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Get:2 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Release
Ign ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Release
Get:3 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Packages
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Get:4 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Release
Ign ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Release
Get:5 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages [3798kB]
Get:6 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Packages
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Get:7 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Release
Ign ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Release
Get:8 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Release [82B]
Get:9 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages [66.4kB]
Get:10 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib Release [85B]
Get:11 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/non-free Packages [68.6kB]
Get:12 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/non-free Release [86B]
Fetched 3933kB in 1m3s (61.5kB/s)
Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-U...86/Packages.gz  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-U...86/Packages.gz  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. '
Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-U...86/Packages.gz  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Reading Package Lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
CHRIS:/etc/apt# synaptic
bash: synaptic: command not found
CHRIS:/etc/apt# synaptic
bash: synaptic: command not found
CHRIS:/etc/apt#

fakie_flip · 10-02-2005, 09:47 AM

Code:

CHRIS:/etc/apt# apt-get update
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
Get:1 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/non-free Release
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Get:2 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Release
Ign ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Release
Get:3 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Packages
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Get:4 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Release
Ign ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contrib Release
Get:5 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Packages
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Get:6 ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Release
Ign ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Release
Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-U...86/Packages.gz  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-U...86/Packages.gz  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. '
Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-U...86/Packages.gz  Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  '
Reading Package Lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_sid_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/contribPackages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_sid_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_sid_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
CHRIS:/etc/apt#

CloudyWizzard · 10-02-2005, 10:10 AM

Well you can remove the "non-free" repository from the sources.list file since that one doesn't exist anymore.

You don't know what will break linspire from that sources.list file, they just point APT to the places where it can find it's software.
basically you do this :

apt-get update (to update the sources, make sure you don't see any errors here).
apt-get install synaptic (this will install synaptic

)
if both 2 commands ended without errors you can start synaptic by typing "synaptic"

now it's possible that the "apt-get install xxx" command gives you some output, that can be following things :
New packages
updated packages
sugested packages
not updated packages

when apt tells you it's gonna update a package it can mean it will trash the system, (like libgc6 will cause trouble).
as long as APT tells you it's gonna : Install 1 new package, and leave 514packages not updated chances of trashing the system are minimal.

Hope this is a bit clear for you (I made a more detailed post here in another thread explaining why APT might cause trouble on Linspire).

fakie_flip · 10-16-2005, 02:00 AM

I got Synaptic to work, but there is only one repository that works. That does not give much software to choose from. Do you have more repositories I can add?