hi,

after ecountering so many problems regarding software packages installation in my Xandros 3.0 box and upon heard synaptic is so good, i decided to give it a shot. i found the synaptic-0.56.1 package online and uncompressed on my harddisk, but i'm having problem to correctly configure it.

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xandros:/home/erdos/software/synaptic-0.56.1# ./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... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed... ar pt_BR es fr de tr zh_CN zh_HK zh_TW ru nl ja be it pl cs hu sr sr@Latn da he ca ko bg no nb sl pt_PT lt el xh mk
checking for intltool >= 0.23... 0.33 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
xandros:/home/erdos/software/synaptic-0.56.1#


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could someone offer some help here?

thanks

Since Xandros is Debian-based, can't you just apt-get it?
I believe you would just type this in the terminal console:

su
[root password]
apt-get update
apt-get install synaptic

Am I wrong?

hi, thanks for the reply

after typing in aforementioned command, here's what shell window displays:

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xandros:/home/erdos/software/synaptic-0.56.1# apt-get update
Hit http://xnv3.xandros.com xandros3.0-xn/main Packages
Ign http://xnv3.xandros.com xandros3.0-xn/main Release
Hit http://xnv3.xandros.com xandros3.0-xn/contrib Packages
Ign http://xnv3.xandros.com xandros3.0-xn/contrib Release
Hit http://xnv3.xandros.com xandros3.0-xn/non-free Packages
Ign http://xnv3.xandros.com xandros3.0-xn/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
xandros:/home/erdos/software/synaptic-0.56.1# 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
xandros:/home/erdos/software/synaptic-0.56.1#