Jaunty Update Manager is broken

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>        I woke up this morning with Update Manager almost but not quite fully
>> functional. I could not get it to d/l the updates so I opened a terminal
>> and used update and upgrade and got the updates.
>>
>>        Update Manager will not quit, work or nothing. I am going to use the
>> update Manager to delete this but it refused. It said use the synastic
>> package manager but now THAT will not come up even after giving it the
>> root password!
>>
>>        So I am going to leave Jaunty for good. It is really broken BAD!
> 
> I'd hazard a guess that yours is "broken BAD" (woeful English by the
> way) but for the rest of us it's working perfectly well.
> 
> What output do you get if you run synastic (sic) from the command line?
> 
	I am able to get synastic up and working from a Terminal IF I use:

$ sudo synastic and give my password. I did delete Update Manager
because it has NEVER worked well.


73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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