Re: [Synaptic-devel] Synaptic downloads, but fails to install packages

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:10:46PM +0100, sindre pedersen wrote:
> Greetings
Hi,
 
> All of a sudden synaptic won't install packages, apt works fine. My synaptic 
> version is 0.36. I am a redhat 9 user, I got my synaptic package from atrpms, 
> and it worked prevously. I have no broken packages, acording to synaptic. I 
> can't understand. I get no warnings, the packages download just fine, but 
> then it just aborts as it starts the installation process and brings me back 
> to the normal synaptic window. The packages are still selected for install. 
> 
> Please help me solve this

Your the first reporting this kind of problems. Can you please have a
look und Settings/Preferences and see if the "Use terminal window"
option is switched to on? This way you should be able to at least see
what happens.
 
bye,
 Michael