[PlanetCCRMA] problem with synaptic

[joakim verona]

Ok, It was the wrong version of the apt package that was the problem.

I upgraded it by first removing the yum package, that conflicted for 
some reason, and apg-get install apt
then synaptic works.

Thanks!
/Joakim


Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>>Synaptic used to run fine, but now it fails after a while in startup, 
>>showing a little dialog which only says "null".
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>>I've tried lots of things to get it working, like cleaning the package 
>>list of things that looked broken and re-installing
>>synaptic and so on.
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>Which version of synaptic, which version of apt, on which version of
>redhat/fedora?
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>>My question is really: is there some other way to get the package list 
>>to choose packages to install?
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>>apt-get install XXX is good enough for me, but how do I determine which 
>>XXX:s there are to choose from?
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>apt-cache can be used for that. For example:
>  apt-cache search \.\* 
>will list all available packages...
>-- Fernando
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