[ SOLVED ] how to reinstall synaptic ? please

[JohnW_57]

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

JohnW

[Neal ManBear]

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

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rpm -Uvh synaptic-0.57.2-20pclos2009.i586.rpmto install it. Be sure you are in the directory that the RPM was downloaded to.

[Jagosix]

Thanks Guys (epecially Texstar, Neal ) for the help. It worked!!!  . You guys are the best.