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  1. Bug #8896
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 8896

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ami_nakata (ami-nakata) wrote :

Christian's very helpful fix appears to include a small error that causes Synaptic to fail on attempted startup. He writes,

> And paste
> APT::Install-Recommends “true";

I think users will have better success if they instead copy and paste the following line into the 99recommends file that Christian suggests users create in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory:

APT::Install-Recommends "true";

The two lines look the identical, but they're not. In the version that Christian typed, the first of the two quotation marks is some kind of non-standard character, presumably a "smart" or (same) "opening" quotation mark. When I tried to use Christian's exact line on my Hardy system I received this fatal error the next time I tried to start Synaptic:

E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99recommends:2: Extra junk at end of file

Replacing the non-standard quotation mark with a normal one, as was done to create the corrected APT line immediately above, solves the problem, and lets Synaptic start normally.