On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:55 am, you wrote:
I don't really know what you mean by "touch"ing /etc/apt/preferences what do I need to do? The following are the components that I am using with apt and synaptic:
Do you have a /etc/apt/preferences? If not try ... touch /etc/apt/preferences.
apt-0.5.4cnc9-1cl.i386.rpm
apt-devel-0.5.4cnc9-1cl.i386.rpm
apt4rpm-0.64.1-0.noarch.rpm
synaptic-0.26-rb1.i386.rpm
I think I run synaptic 0.24. Maybe try that one. I think it was Joe who said to rerun apt-get update. Did you try that?
I can try root, but does it make a difference as to whether you log in and use synaptic as root, su or sux as to the result if synaptic doesn't work?
Probably not. But if it did, we'd know that your synaptic actually worked. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.1