synaptic crashes when 'marking additional changes'
...STILL trying to get used to and comfortable with linux, with rare success, yet another question:
as title states... when i open up synaptic to manage software pkg's, it seems to be crashing now, never used to.
say i want to upgrade gedit as an example which causes this:
- i right click the item in the list
- click 'mark for upgrade'
- a window comes up, as appropriate, stating that there are other required changes to be made when upgrading this package, which synaptic handles
- i click 'mark', and the program closes..
also this seems to happen if i click 'cancel' at the same prompt. is there some sort of log i can check to give you details for you to guide me with this problem?
another thing, some packages 'require' that another package has to be removed, usually quite a few too... i never upgrade those packages because i thought it would remove other programs and will screw up my system. i should trust synaptic and continue, when this happens correct?
it never seemed to crash right when i started using ubuntu, but thats probably just cause i didnt really use or KNOW of synaptic.
i upgraded the kernel with synaptic last week or so to 2.6.10 686-smp, and im running of course ubuntu.
oh ya: synaptic is v0.53.4, and there is an update in the list for v0.55+.. but i dont think i can upgrade it because it brings up the window that crashes the program :S
in general actually.. when im using my ubuntu partition, the software i use seems to crash with no visual reason [ex firefox, gaim, xmms [although not in while since i updated kernel if that even has anything to do with it :S].
i always just blame linux for this saying its rediculous for people to call it so stable, but that cant be the case considering the # of users.. but i like to blame it anyways ;p
is it just my sysconfig i have on this install that makes ubuntu not like me? i know i dont have something setup properly already.. my vid card, resizing and other gui things seem choppy.. oh well that isnt relevant.
is there any customary/almost mandatory modifications you should do to every lnx install, to prevent all these instabilities? sry for my ignorance of the topic but i do agree its the future and want to get a headstart [at least over the others who dont know what linux is]
thanks for any help..
Last edited by nadroj; 01-26-2005 at 08:49 PM.
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