Sudden complications with Adept and Synaptic

[Alvin]

On Saturday 11 October 2008 13:49:57 Nils Kassube wrote:
> Bas Roufs wrote:
> > bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ kdesu synaptic
> >
> > (after hitting the enter button, nothing happened).
>
> That's a bit strange. could it be that your kdesu is broken? But there is
> something else you could try as user bas. Install gksu and use that one
> instead of kdesu:
>
> sudo apt-get install gksu
> gksu synaptic

Or better yet, use 'kdesudo'.

Regarding updating your system, try:
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

-- 
Alvin