Howdy,
As I had to get a "new" (surplus from friends) laptop running I figured I'd give Kubuntu a try. Had been running Ubuntu for a year or so with mixed degrees of (un)happiness and really like gwenview, so why not try KDE.
Decided to test Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 as it also promised a new version of gwenview with extra features.
System: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li-1718 (T2350, 1.5 GB RAM) - some of the desktop effects disabled for speed.
11.10 32-bit Desktop (MD5 checked) installed fine from Live CD image on USB-stick.
First time I tried the Muon Software Center was a bit erratic. Some things would install, some would hang in the "Waiting" status forever, not indicating any reason. Some would start installing after clicking on the "Install" butons in the Details screen and/or List screen alternately or some such. Others would "never" start. So I shut down Muon a few times with packagaes in the "Waiting" status.
I half expected Muon to be waiting for the results of a root password dialog in these cases but the dialog was nowhere to be found. So it seems it never got around to opening it.
Next (after closing MSC and rebooting etc) I tried the Muon Package Manager. I could select package to be intalled but it wouldn' t do it - popping up a dialog stating that another package manager is active and blocking access to the packages. So I saved the list of marked packages to a file.
Trying MSC again, and this now gives me same error message about another package manager being active - of course I make sure that MPM and MSC are not both active when this happens but the error doesn' t go away, not even after completely shutting down and rebooting.
Next I tried to rund Muon as root, opening a terminal and starting it through kdesudo muon. This complains some in the terminal window but starts Muon nevertheless. However, Muon crashes immediately when selecting File - Read Markings. To add insult to injury the Crash Handler itself crashes the very moment I try to store the backtrace to a file.
As I have not activated any other package manager I suspect the two Muons somehow got in each others ways and didn't clean up any locks set on the package system after themselves ??
Any way to do this manually? Look where?
Thanks in advance for any pointers
As I had to get a "new" (surplus from friends) laptop running I figured I'd give Kubuntu a try. Had been running Ubuntu for a year or so with mixed degrees of (un)happiness and really like gwenview, so why not try KDE.
Decided to test Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 as it also promised a new version of gwenview with extra features.
System: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li-1718 (T2350, 1.5 GB RAM) - some of the desktop effects disabled for speed.
11.10 32-bit Desktop (MD5 checked) installed fine from Live CD image on USB-stick.
First time I tried the Muon Software Center was a bit erratic. Some things would install, some would hang in the "Waiting" status forever, not indicating any reason. Some would start installing after clicking on the "Install" butons in the Details screen and/or List screen alternately or some such. Others would "never" start. So I shut down Muon a few times with packagaes in the "Waiting" status.
I half expected Muon to be waiting for the results of a root password dialog in these cases but the dialog was nowhere to be found. So it seems it never got around to opening it.
Next (after closing MSC and rebooting etc) I tried the Muon Package Manager. I could select package to be intalled but it wouldn' t do it - popping up a dialog stating that another package manager is active and blocking access to the packages. So I saved the list of marked packages to a file.
Trying MSC again, and this now gives me same error message about another package manager being active - of course I make sure that MPM and MSC are not both active when this happens but the error doesn' t go away, not even after completely shutting down and rebooting.
Next I tried to rund Muon as root, opening a terminal and starting it through kdesudo muon. This complains some in the terminal window but starts Muon nevertheless. However, Muon crashes immediately when selecting File - Read Markings. To add insult to injury the Crash Handler itself crashes the very moment I try to store the backtrace to a file.
As I have not activated any other package manager I suspect the two Muons somehow got in each others ways and didn't clean up any locks set on the package system after themselves ??
Any way to do this manually? Look where?
Thanks in advance for any pointers
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