[ SOLVED ] how to reinstall synaptic ? please

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Re: [ SOLVED ] how to reinstall synaptic ? please

« Reply #30 on: August 01, 2011, 07:08:54 PM »

Download from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pclinuxos/temp/ synaptic-0.57.2-20pclos2009.i586.rpm

Start Konsole (terminal) su to root and go to the folder where synaptic-0.57.2-20pclos2009.i586.rpm is downloaded,
Type then: rpm -Ivh synaptic-0.57.2-20pclos2009.i586.rpm
Also rpm -Uvh synaptic-0.57.2-20pclos2009.i586.rpm is possible.

Guess after installing aptugrade is working

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Re: [ SOLVED ] how to reinstall synaptic ? please

« Reply #31 on: August 01, 2011, 07:30:10 PM »

Quote from: Texstar on August 01, 2011, 06:38:35 PM

Quote from: Neal on August 01, 2011, 04:43:09 PM

Apt Upgrade installs the new version of Synaptic. Did you reboot?

Neal,

apt upgrade looks to see what version of synaptic you have installed in order to determine whether it should run or not and guess what? He removed synaptic so apt upgrade is just going to exit. What he needs to do is download and manually install the old version of synaptic from the following link then he can run apt-upgrade!

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pclinuxos/temp/synaptic-0.57.2-20pclos2009.i586.rpm

Can you please instruct him how to manually install a rpm package please?

I had missed that.

I would use, as root

Code:

rpm -Uvh synaptic-0.57.2-20pclos2009.i586.rpm

to install it. Be sure you are in the directory that the RPM was downloaded to.