Probelm with synaptic

[twa]

Hi to everyone,
just discovered that the button " Apply changes" in synaptic has become unusable.
am running LMDE 32bit since last september .
your help will be very much appreciated.
thank you

[xenopeek]

What do you mean by unusable? Can you describe it or post a screenshot?

You may try:

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sudo apt-get install -f

And then:

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

To get out of a bad situation if it is complaining about broken packages.

[twa]

Vincent,
ths for quick reply...here the screenshot:

[twa]

Vincent,
forgot..there R no broken packages. here another screenshot of what is pending:

[Roken]

It may sound like a dumb question, but have you actually selected something to install/remove/change etc. The button is unavailable if there are no changes marked.

NB. You posted at the same time as me. You have an "Upgradeable" package shown, but you need to mark it for ugrade.

[twa]

Roken,
thanks, now I got this:

[twa]

Roken,
and also this:

[Roken]

OK, then back to Vincent's suggestion:

Close synaptic and, in a terminal:

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[twa]

Vincent & Rocken,

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

did not solve the problem.
screen shot 1 tells me that mplayer has been kept to the actual version and not upgraded
screen shot 2 and 3 tell that there R damaged packages, but cannot repair.

[twa]

Hi
I found this:
http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Bug-6 ... 31925.html
but do not understand what to do.

Have now disinstalled mplayer...using VLC
txs

[Roken]

You don't need to build libasound - an up to date copy is available in the repository. Do you, by any chance, have your repositories set up to track stable only (the later libasound and libpulse are in testing)

[twa]

Roken,
this is my sources.list:
[list=]deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free[/list]
txs

[jeffreyC]

Try adding something like this to your sources list

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

[Gerd50]

Hi twa,

like i described it in this thread

viewtopic.php?f=141&t=79533

you can add sources if there are missing packages. In this case

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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

then

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

after this operation disable the debian testing sources with # in front of the two lines.

Your problem tells me, i'll have to revise the above thread a little bit

[zerozero]

i believe was secipola how first mentioned this possibility (and since then i have refer to it a few times): -what happened here is caused by using the latest/incoming update-packs (which are frozen snapshots of the main debian repo) and tracking directly debian-multimedia.
one day debian-multimedia would update a pkg, with a lib v. recommend still not available in the frozen pack.

now how to solve this:
- wait until the next update-pack, main debian will be put up-to-date and the unsolved dependencies, solved (this waiting has the advantage, imho, of not messing with the sources.list - if one picked latest, is seeking some stability, not jumping forward and back in the sources.list will keep the system stable)

- if really annoys you to have a hold pkg for a few days/weeks, make a quick jump to testing and solve it;

- in the long run, debian-multimedia should be also mirrored in the update-packs

[twa]

Hi everyone,
many thanks for your help.
since I picked latest, am seeking some stability. Will follow zerozero suggestion and wait till debian-multimedia is also mirrored in the update-packs.
thank U again.