Synaptic

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:25:21 PM Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 12/05/13 20:17, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook
> >>
> >> <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
> >>> On 08/05/13 20:46, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >>>> No one in Kubuntu had anything to do with synaptic. No conspiracy
> >>
> >> here.
> >>
> >>>> Scott K
> >>>
> >>> Scott,
> >>>
> >>> I've compared synaptic on one installation - the upgraded version -
> >>
> >> against
> >>
> >>> the freshly installed one and the binaries are identical. I could
> >>
> >> really use
> >>
> >>> some help in locating the cause of the different user interface that
> >>
> >> makes
> >>
> >>> the fresh install fairly useless for me.
> >>
> >> Did you check the dependencies of these two packages? Might be the
> >> other one was packaged with something missing that caused the
> >> difference.
> >
> > That or configuration file differences in the user's config.
> >
> > Since synaptic isn't part of Kubuntu, you might have more luck on an
> > Ubuntu list.
> I also have an Ubuntu disk running 13.04 on the same machine: Synaptic
> is just fine, so the problem is somehow related to my fresh Kubuntu
> installation, although I hear and believe what you say about Kubuntu not
> packaging Synaptic.
>
> I'd like to better understand why Myriam thinks it might be a packaging
> problem? The user interface is completely different and I can't believe
> that it isn't the result of a design decision somewhere. Would your
> patience extend to looking at a screenshot of the "new" interface in
> case it triggers a memory?
>
> Peter HB

Synaptic , like Muon, uses an external application to manage sources. In
Kubuntu, it is called software-properties-kde, and for synaptic, Unity,
Gnome
and other gtk-based desktops it is *software-properties-gtk*. It could be
that
this is missing, perhaps. I tested installing synaptic on my system: it
does
NOT pull in software-properties-gtk, so checking the deps as Myriam
suggested
was a valid idea. if you install the missing package, you should be fine
there.

$ sudo apt-get install synaptic

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libcairo-perl libept1.4.12 libglib-perl libgtk2-perl libpango-perl
librarian0
  libvte-2.90-9 libvte-2.90-common rarian-compat
Suggested packages:
  libfont-freetype-perl libgtk2-perl-doc dwww deborphan tasksel
  **software-properties-gtk**
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcairo-perl libept1.4.12 libglib-perl libgtk2-perl libpango-perl
librarian0
  libvte-2.90-9 libvte-2.90-common rarian-compat synaptic
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,671 kB of archives.

My guess is that software-properties-gtk is already a dependency somewhere
else in Unity/Xubuntu/Lubuntu/etc. It could be considered  a packaging bug,
as
it should be a dependency on the package manager so that it is installed
along
with that no matter what sort of *buntu system is used, especially if it
was
doing so in previous versions. However, it seems that moving software-
properties-gtk to "suggests" was done on purpose(1) but with no reason I
can
quickly discover.

This should be reported as a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1179310


(1)
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/s/synaptic/synaptic_0.80~exp2/changelog


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Clay Weber (claydoh)
http://kubuntuforums.net
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