Utilities apparently missing from Ubuntu15.10

[Bret Busby]

On 01/11/2015, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 17:08:23 +0000
> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip/>
>
>> Probably.  Worth trying again with apt-get just in case it
> shows
>> anything silly. The logs for apt-get are in /var/log/apt/term.log but
>> I think that only shows the actual operations performed, not ones
>> that did not get as far as doing anything.
>>
>> If you are up for a little investigation, which should not mess up
>> your machine, first remove any packages that are no longer in use by:
>>
>> sudo apt-get autoremove
>>
>> Then remove synaptic
>>
>> sudo apt-get remove --purge synaptic
>>
>> then autoremove again
>> sudo apt-get autoremove
>> note what it removes, I would expect libept.  then install synaptic
>> again sudo apt-get install synaptic
>
> Might also be a good idea to run 'sudo apt-get update'. It might just
> be out-dated repositories.
>

One possibility that had occurred to me, regarding the possibility of
outdated, or incomplete, repositories, is that this installation
apparently uses the australian repository as its source, whereas, in
the past, with Debian and, I believe, with Ubuntu, I have used the
main repository/ies

>
> --
> ab alio expectes alteri quod feceris
>

? (curious, I am)


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Bret Busby
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