Synaptic

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 12/05/13 23:54, Clay Weber wrote:
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> 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
>
>
>
> -- Clay Weber (claydoh) http://kubuntuforums.net http://claydoh.com

That did the trick! Very many thanks to all for your help and thanks 
also for filing the bug.

Peter HB