<div dir="ltr">Have you checked the log files? Any clues there?<div><br></div><div>--El</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:57 PM, John Deakin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@humanaspects.co.uk" target="_blank">john@humanaspects.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Chris,<br>
<br>
Thanks very much. Did all that but no change. The authentication window<br>
shows, I fill in the password and it dies. Anything else to try?<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
John<br>
<span class=""><br>
On 11/02/15 18:49, Chris Green wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:32:11PM +0000, John Deakin wrote:<br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> I have done something rather stupid. I used aptitude to try to remove<br>
>> plex manager. The report from aptitude was that plex could not be found<br>
>> but offered some other files which were probably libraries to delete.<br>
>> Stupidly in the hope that this might disable plex I went ahead.<br>
>><br>
>> As a consequence Synaptic Package Manager bombs out after I enter my<br>
>> password and I cannot install Muon Package Manager or Muon Software<br>
>> Centre using Ubuntu Software Centre. They seem to install up to a point<br>
>> but then USC gives up and forgets about it.<br>
>><br>
>> Please does anyone know which libraries/files are likely to be missing<br>
>> and how I can re-install them?<br>
><br>
> Use the command line. Open a terminal window and at the command<br>
> prompt enter:-<br>
><br>
> sudo apt-get update<br>
> sudo apt-get remove synaptic<br>
> sudo apt-get install synaptic<br>
><br>
> (The remove may not be necessary but will do no harm)<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
--<br>
</span>regards,<br>
John<br>
01367 820542<br>
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