Synaptic displays "An error occurred"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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synaptic (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When I attempted to launch synaptic for the first time in this installation I got an error message.
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An error occurred
The following details are provided.
E: The value 'natty' is invalid for APT::Default-
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
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After a Natty Xubuntu install a few weeks ago and virtually no modifications at all, I allowed release update. Then,
since I wanted a fairly generic xfce4 desk I sought to disable the window border animation during move and I thought compiz-config may be able to change that.
I did apt-get install compiz-config and it seemed to install ok but I could not find the menu item to run it.
That is when I decided to install synaptic and I got the error above at the first run.
Note that synaptic was not installed before. and there were no concurrently running package management applications.
After closing synaptic I was able to run ubuntu software center, but I do regard that as a very much less functional application than synaptic.
I am not going to struggle with this installation because I already have a running Natty system on another partition.
I will just do a clean install of Xubuntu Oneiric if I can find a website showing how to disable the window animations.
PS: I had hoped with xfce to avoid all that silly stuff that is wobbly windows and Unity etc.
$> apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
Installed: 0.75.2ubuntu8
Candidate: 0.75.2ubuntu8
Version table:
*** 0.75.2ubuntu8 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Xfce4 desktop.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 23 02:49:07 2011
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-22 (0 days ago)
PS. This machine is i7 desktop HD Benq screen. All running smoothly on the other partition.
The report is for your information, not a request for help.
Thank you all for Ubuntu, (although I am not fond of Unity)