(SOLVED) XFCE Settings Manager

[zorlac]

"Heanet.ie: no problem with task-xfce-plugins and weather-plugin."

So, am I doing something wrong then?
The system seems to update OK otherwise using that mirror.  
Even LibreOffice did its update check and was satisfied.

I installed apt-sources-list, updated the package sources list and tried a different repo
and neither task-xfce-plugins or the weather-plugin will install.

Something's not right here in my list.
There no version even listed for the weather-plugin.

[agmg]

As root, navigate to /var/cache/apt/ and delete the files pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin, nothing else!
Then navigate to /var/lib/apt/lists/ and delete all release and pkglist files (not the "lock" file or the "partial" folder).
Open Synaptic again and hit "Reload"

[zorlac]

I followed your directions and Synaptic is still the same.  
I even ran the update package sources list routine and chose a different repo.  

[agmg]

Try with apt from the command line:

su (password)
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade (to see what errors occur)

[zorlac]

[root@localhost me]# apt-get update

Get:1 http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2010 release [503B]
Get:2 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010 release [2884B]               
Fetched 3387B in 0s (10.5kB/s)                     
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2010/megagames pkglist
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2010/megagames release
Get:1 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/main pkglist [2621kB]
Get:2 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/main release [161B]                 
Get:3 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/updates pkglist [523kB]         
Get:4 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/updates release [162B]             
Get:5 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/nonfree pkglist [55.1kB]           
Get:6 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/nonfree release [161B]             
Get:7 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/games pkglist [53.2kB]             
Get:8 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/games release [159B]               
Get:9 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/xfce4 pkglist [54.2kB]             
Get:10 http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010/xfce4 release [159B]               
Fetched 3307kB in 22s (148kB/s)                                               
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done

[root@localhost me]# apt-get dist-upgrade

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.

[agmg]

I just switched to this mirror and I have no problem installing task-xfce or task-xfce-plugins...

xfce4-weather-plugin is fine also.

http://i45.tinypic.com/2937ma1.jpg

I don't know why this is happening to your machine. Maybe some other forum member has more knowledge on this issue.
A workaround would be to manually download and install xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.2-1pclos2012.i586.rpm and then continue with installing task-xfce and task-xfce-plugins...

su (password)
rpm -Uvh /download_folder/xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.2-1pclos2012.i586.rpm

[zorlac]

This was the problem all along!

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,104912.0.html

The problem is that xfce4-weather-plugin is pinned but it is not pinned correctly. The installed version is 0.7.4.1-1phinx2012
As root navigate to /etc/apt/preferences and you will see the pinned version is incorrect, the second line needs to read and should be altered to

I just renamed that file!!