Wayne wrote: > So much for long term support. > If any of you recall, I was having a problem opening Open Office. > Between help I received here, on the Ubuntu newsgroups and off google I > was never able to resolve it. When the new Beta's came out I tried that > thinking it might fix something. It didn't. > One thing the upgrade to Hardy did do was screw up updating. If I tried > to update it would not ask for a password and would just sit there > churning away. What I had to do was try to configure something that > would require my password and then upgrade. I chalked this up to the > beta and waited for Hardy to go gold. Well, the day came, I downloaded, > burned and installed. The good news, I can once again use open office. > The bad news, I still can not update or add applications without doing > something like accessing "Hardware Drivers" first. > I hunted around in the bug list and didn't find my problem but there > are so many problems in there I might have overlooked it. I haven't > managed to install pan yet so I haven't checked the NG's yet. > Anyone have the same problem and or a solution? > > Thanks, > Wayne Cheney
Sounds like you are trying to do this from the desktop? If so the launcher or icon that you use to run synaptic need to look like this: gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic It is the gksu program that sets 'roor' privileges for synaptic. I would run the following commands from a shell: This is to make sure you can sync to the apt repositories on the net: sudo apt-get update Then check that you don't have any packages that are conflicting: sudo apt-get check If there are any installed packages but are not fully setup/configured, this will correct that and return the package to the installed state: dpkg --configure -a Those commands will wither run clean or tell you what needs to be done. Once they all run without complaining you have a stable system from the "distro" perspective. I know this works since my Wife, forgetting that I was upgrading my main system to Hards (8.04) tried to logging and read her mail. This made the migration program lockup and fail, leaving the system in a half Edgy/Hardy state. I used the above commands to 'fix' the system, restoring it to a full Hardy state. Joe
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