NO Package Manager

[ghostman]

hello everyone, I am a new kubuntu user and i have a big problem. I don't know what I did but I don't have Synaptic Package manager anymore. I tried installing it by using apt-get without success. can anyone help me, please?

this is the message i get
sudo apt-get install synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package synaptic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package synaptic has no installation candidate

[molloollom]

Re: NO Package Manager

Hi.
Maybe your sources.list file is messed up?
If you can open up that file with a text editor and paste its contents in here, it might help out.
It's located at /etc/apt/sources.list

I think there's other package managers installed on there by default too, though I'm not sure which ones. You could try running kpackage, or adept_manager.

[penguin.ch]

Re: NO Package Manager

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3083815.0

[ghostman]

Re: NO Package Manager

Well when i opened sources list it was empty, but when i opened backup this is what I got
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-security main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-security universe




i tried using kate and adding repos to sources but it said something about not having write access. can u help thankssssssssssssssssssssss

[molloollom]

Re: NO Package Manager

Ok that's no problem. What you're gonna want to do is rename the backup as the sources.list file, this will replace the currently empty one and then you'll be all set. After that it's just apt-get update and you will be able to install synaptic and whatever else you want.

So you open up a terminal, and in the terminal you are going to type:
kdesu konqueror
just like that, and hit enter. You'll be prompted for your password, and konqueror will pop up. Since you did that kdesu thing, konqueror will have write access. Now you go over to /etc/apt, and right-click the backup file you just posted the contents of, and rename it to be sources.list. It'll ask you if you want to overwrite the current sources.list, click yes, and you're done.

[ghostman]

Re: NO Package Manager

thanks it worked