Problem with synaptic

[twa]

Hi,
am running LMDE updated to pack 3 w-out any problem. Just discovered I'm not able to use synaptic. It opens, but the apply updated button is greyed out.
is there any reason for this ??

[zerozero]

twa, sorry if this comes as a silly question, but did you first selected mark all updates button? apply is still greyed out after that?

[twa]

zerozero,
txs for yr prompt reply.
Yes, still greyed-out

[zerozero]

ahh foomatic yeahh now i get it
it's nothing wrong with your synaptic, if you run dist-upgrade, apt will tell a bit more, foomatic-db-engine is held-back: when UP3 was frozen not all the dep were met, so v. 4.0.8-2 can't be installed until UP4

[twa]

zerozero,
thx again..U got the point !
now I feel comfortable.

[zerozero]

now I feel comfortable.

good

[Pepas]

Isn't the idea to have the LMDE repositories in a nice state? I think that foomatic-db-engine package should perhaps be replaced by the older version from Debian Stable (4.0.4-3), or would that cause other problems?

[Gerd50]

Why don't you add the debian testing repos to your sources.list, enable it temporarely and install the up to date version of
foomatic-db-engine?

[zerozero]

@Pepas, are you having any kind of issues with the available v. of foomatic-db-engine in latest? is your printer not working because the engine v. is old and you need a newer one? if is not broken, don't try to fix it!

[twa]

zerozero,

are you having any kind of issues with the available v. of foomatic-db-engine in latest? is your printer not working because the engine v. is old and you need a newer one? if is not broken, don't try to fix it!

U absolutely right !! I still have foomatic-db-engine at old version and my printer is working without any kind of issues.

[Pepas]

Haven't noticed any problems with the 4.0.4-3 foomatic-db-engine. So why have 4.0.8-2 in the incoming repository when nobody can use it, is my point. Not having 4.0.8-2 means there is no message that it's held back, so nobody will be unnecessary alarmed.