Comments on: Simple Package management with Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu

By: Terry Deglow

Terry Deglow — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:53:37 +0000

Recently I helped a friend intall UBUNTU 11.04 which has Synaptic v 0.70. In my version, 0.63, there was a Quick Search dialog box in the Toolbar. Another site shows this DB present in version 0.7. How do I make that DB visible.

Thanks

By: Devesh

Devesh — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:21:32 +0000

hi…i m new on ubuntu……n d instructiond n tips r very useful……..
this info is really very helpful…….thanku vei much…..

By: kedhareswar kumar

kedhareswar kumar — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:39:03 +0000

Wow, these instructions are great. I’m on Ubuntu hardy.

This must have taken a lot of work. Why can’t other people make “linux”/Ubuntu so easy to use? It’s always commandline this, commandline that, and after all is said and done I never felt any more knowledgeable or competent afterwards.

This really made my day.

By: salute our armed forces

salute our armed forces — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:44:38 +0000

I installed VLC with Synaptic but it was sort of hit or miss; I seem to have done it right. Movie Player with add-ons seems to crap out streaming music so I hope VLC works instead.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:11:46 +0000

I got the similar problem as one of the user above. We installed Astrolog on Ubuntu with Synaptic Manager. But unable to find a shortcut to the program.

By: taking pictures for the web

taking pictures for the web — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:02:43 +0000

What a simple and easy tutorial, I’m a newbies for ubuntu, but got everything at hand.
Keep it up.
thanks..thanks a lot………..

By: my point sir

my point sir — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:29:10 +0000

Synaptic is a great GUI on Debian. Synaptic uses the GTK graphic libraries . Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

By: dallas attorneys

dallas attorneys — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:18:31 +0000

Cool i got all the information i needed.. i got a bit knowledge about linux. gonna install the synaptic head manager kinda lost it..

By: vikas

vikas — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:04:20 +0000

i am try to dvd player in ubuntu but dvd is not play . i insert a dvd so dvd is not play in ubuntu plz help me wt can i do.

By: Andy @ air jordan shoes

Andy @ air jordan shoes — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:55:25 +0000

I am trying to install postgresql on Ubuntu 9.x as per the steps mentioned in this article but I could not install it successfully.

By: Heaven

Heaven — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:33:32 +0000

Hey Guys!
can anyone tell me how to install build-essential package through synaptic package manager..
i m getting a error message “please insert the ubantu cd with the specified version in the cd rom”.but when i insert the disk the error remains the same…
can anyone tell me what kind of error it is..
i m facing the same problem while installing the “dpkg-dev”.
these are the few packages that we need to install if we want to create our own package…
plzz help..thanks in advance..
….
And one more thing can anyone tell me the easiest way to create our own package so that i can install software of my choice..

By: symphony

symphony — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:19:37 +0000

how do i open a package i have installed, eg a game

By: David Hoffman

David Hoffman — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:11:46 +0000

I recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 om my now dual-boot Ubuntu/Windows XP PC. I much prefer GUI interface to install software or add-ons. Synaptic is kind of scary and I am only beginning to understand command line interface. I installed VLC with Synaptic but it was sort of hit or miss; I seem to have done it right. Movie Player with add-ons seems to crap out streaming music so I hope VLC works instead.

You Tube video streams in Firefox often freeze up, even though the download speed is good and the sound often continues. I upgraded my GeForce 6200 graphics driver which didn’t hurt but the freeze up still happens… Advice to use command line changes is too much for now. That’s why my PC will stay dual boot for now. My friends say “just buy an iMac” but I am too stubborn. Maybe I want to learn this stuff, even though it will take a long time.

By: eldwin

eldwin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:05:24 +0000

I lost my synaptic Package Manager since i was a newbie i didn’t know that if I disable synaptic. The Synaptic Package Manager will be lost how can I restore it??? huhuhuhu Thanks ^_^

By: majaaz

majaaz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:37:07 +0000

my name is majaaz i need help for reinstalling synaptic packet manager when i open synaptic packet manager it is showing these error
E: Type ‘open() failed, please report.

what i have do now please help iam new to ubuntu

By: GeorgeK

GeorgeK — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:27:24 +0000

Wow, these instructions are great. I’m on Ubuntu hardy.

This really made my day.

By: Sanu

Sanu — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:35:57 +0000

Awesome guys. I’,m doing well with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. The above instructions are simple and clear for any novice according to me.

By: rajesh

rajesh — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:28:08 +0000

ecently installed ubuntu as an alternative to win.XP but it did not play mp3.
i was searching for a mediaplayer to run on ubuntu …i did not understand the terminologies used here….-”repositories” bla bla…cant we have a installer pakage like “.exe” instead of all these yada yada..?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:36:34 +0000

Hi,

I’m also a newbie to the Linux community. My preferred distro is Ubuntu. I have been in the computer field for over 20 years working VAX minis and Windows networks as a developer of payroll, warehouse and accounting systems.

Not sure if this is the place for this, but here goes.

I have hit a snag with Synaptic. It was under Ubuntu Studio 9.04 but the problem doesn’t appear to be with Studio. I was installing some stuff and the process hung. I killed it and rebooted into the repair menu. It said it had found a recursive procedure, was fixing it and that a reboot was required. The procedure was loading a mail merge Python file for OpenOffice.

I rebooted. Half of my system didn’t work. That is understandable since the installer hadn’t finished and cleaned up. I couldn’t run Synaptic again. I ran the sudo command it gave me and - well, when it got to the same line it hung again. Obviously the recursive problem hadn’t been fixed or flagged.

Bottom line: Is there anything I can do to tell synaptic to ignore this and continue with the rest of the installation, or am I looking at a reinstall?

As it is my system is useless. For what it is worth I was quite pleased with Ubuntu Studio and what had been done with 9.04. Having been a programmer I know that stuff happens. My guess is that I just hit some weird combination of things to install.

Thanks for any help I can get.

Take care all,

Wayne

By: sizedin

sizedin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:49:03 +0000

What a simple and easy tutorial, I’m a newbies for ubuntu, but got everything at hand.
Keep it up.
thanks.

sizedin